Pro-poor growth, poverty and inequality in rural Vietnam

Pro-Poor Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Rural Vietnam

Determinants of Rural Poverty Reduction and Pro-poor Economic Growth in China

China has made remarkable progress in its war against poverty since the launching of economic reform in the late 1970s. This paper examines some of the major driving forces of poverty reduction in China. Based on time series and cross-sectional provincial data, the determinants of rural poverty incidence are estimated. The results show that economic growth is an essential and necessary conditio...

Welfare in Vietnam during the 1990s: Poverty, Inequality and Poverty

During the 1990s, Vietnam's economy was transformed through a series of economic, social and political reforms, resulting in an average growth rate over the decade in excess of 6% per annum. This strong growth performance was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the incidence of consumption per capita poverty. This paper examines the changes in poverty and poverty dynamics over the 1990s using a n...

Reform, Growth, and Poverty in Vietnam

Vietnam grew rapidly in the 1990s, and yet by many measures it has poor economic institutions. The objective of this paper is to explain this apparent anomaly. Between the 1980s and 1990s Vietnam carried out significant economic reforms, notably stabilization, introduction of positive real interest rates, trade liberalization, and initial property rights reform in agriculture. Relating these ch...

Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships This paper examines the causal relationship between inequality and a number of macroeconomic variables frequently found in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the existing cross-country empirical evidence on the effects of inequality on growth and the extent to which the poorest i...