Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transition
Title | Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transition PDF eBook |
Author | David Dollar |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780821341629 |
Vietnam's rapid growth has transformed the country, reducing poverty from about 75 percent of the population to about 50 percent. At the same time, its transition from a planned to a market economy has created new challenges for public policy in a wide range of areas. This volume explores issues such as which macroeconomic and structural reforms led to growth, what effect reform has had on the household economy, and how the transition has affected education, health, fertility, and child nutrition. It provides an analysis of economic and social policies and shows how micro-level data can be used to analyze the likely effect of different government expenditures and activities. It also focuses on the effect different policies have on the poor and challenges stereotypes about poverty-focused expenditures.
Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transition
Title | Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transition PDF eBook |
Author | D. Dollar |
Publisher | World Bank Group |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781280003844 |
Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transitions to a Market Economy
Title | Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transitions to a Market Economy PDF eBook |
Author | David Dollar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Households |
ISBN |
Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam
Title | Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Glewwe |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780821355435 |
With the adoption of new market-oriented policies, Vietnam has transformed itself from one of the world's poorest countries during the 1980s, into an economy with one of the highest growth rates during the 1990s. Using macroeconomic and household survey data, this publication examines a range of issues including: the causes of Vietnam's economic growth and future prospects; the impact on household welfare and poverty levels, school enrolment, child health and other socioeconomic outcomes; and the nature of poverty in Vietnam and the effectiveness of government policies for poverty reduction, drawing lessons for Vietnam and for other low-income developing countries.
Land in Transition
Title | Land in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Ravallion |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2008-04-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0821372769 |
This book is a case study of Vietnam's efforts to fight poverty using market-oriented land reforms. In the 1980s and 1990s, the country undertook major institutional reforms, and an impressive reduction in poverty followed. But what role did the reforms play? Did the efficiency gains from reform come at a cost to equity? Were there both winners and losers? Was rising rural landlessness in the wake of reforms a sign of success or failure? 'Land in Transition' investigates the impacts on living standards of the two stages of land law reform: in 1988, when land was allocated to households administratively and output markets were liberalized; and in 1993, when official land titles were introduced and land transactions were permitted for the first time since communist rule began. To fully assess the poverty impacts of these changes, the authors' analysis of household surveys is guided by both economic theory and knowledge of the historical and social contexts. The book delineates lessons from Vietnam's experience and their implications for current policy debates in China and elsewhere.
The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Household Welfare in Vietnam
Title | The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Household Welfare in Vietnam PDF eBook |
Author | Ganesh Seshan |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Cost and standard of living |
ISBN |
"What is the effect of trade liberalization on households in developing countries? To what extent do the poor benefit when local markets are made more accommodative to international trade? The author empirically analyzes the distributional impact of trade policies on households in a low-income country with a large rural economy where labor markets are imperfect. The methodology in this paper, which can be applied to various types of labor market conditions, relates changes in prices attributed to trade reforms to changes in household welfare, income distribution, and poverty using theoretically consistent measures of producer and consumer welfare. The author investigates the effects on poverty and income distribution of national and international market integration in Vietnam's rice sector and fertilizer market between 1993 and 1998, a period of ongoing market reforms when the national poverty rate fell sharply from 59 percent to 37 percent. ... " -- Cover verso.
Trade Reforms and Welfare
Title | Trade Reforms and Welfare PDF eBook |
Author | Aylin Isik-Dikmelik |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Agricultural Production |
ISBN |
This paper analyzes the impact of trade reforms on household welfare. In particular, it studies the importance of each of the links that together constitute the impact using data from the Vietnamese experience in the 1990s. The implementation of trade reforms in the 1990s, most noteworthy of which was the liberalization of rice, resulted in substantial improvement in welfare as evidenced by the drastic decline in poverty. Using analytical and empirical methods, the author examines the role of each channel (direct versus indirect) in this improvement for different groups of households. Results indicate that the growth has been broad based and pro-poor. Poorer households experienced more growth for each and every group analyzed. And contrary to the standard literature, net buyer households had more growth compared with net sellers, emphasizing the importance of indirect links. Decomposition of the growth shows that for rural households, both the direct effect and the multiplier effect drive growth while the multiplier effect was key in urban areas. The importance of the secondary effects underscores the need for a broader model to estimate the impact of trade reforms fully.