Household Enterprises in Vietnam: Survival, Growth, and Living Standards
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Acknowledgments: We thank Tran Quoc Trung for his assistance in providing information about the enterprise laws that were instituted in 2000, and we thank Dwayne Benjamin for sharing important data with us that he had developed together with Loren Brandt. Furthermore, we appreciate the comments provided by Paul Glewwe, as well as the many suggestions offered by the participants of the conference on " Economic Growth and Household Welfare: Policy Lessons from Vietnam, " held in Hanoi, May 16-18, 2001. Each of these have contributed significantly to this paper.
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