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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822206203321

Autore

Ravallion Martin

Titolo

Land in transition : : reform and poverty in rural Vietnam / / Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington DC : , : World Bank, , [2008]

copyright 2008

ISBN

0-8213-7276-9

Descrizione fisica

xii, 203 pages : illustrations ; ; 24 cm

Collana

Equity and development series

Altri autori (Persone)

Van de WalleDominique

Disciplina

333.3/1597

Soggetti

Land reform - Vietnam

Vietnam Economic policy 1975-

Vietnam Economic conditions 1975-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; About the Authors; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Historical Context and Policy Debates; 3 Data and Summary Statistics; Figure 3.1 Frequency Distributions of Consumption, 1993 and 2004; Table 3.1 Variable Definitions and Descriptive Statistics, 1993; Table 3.2 Variable Definitions and Summary Statistics, 1993-98; Table 3.3 Poverty, Inequality, and Landholding Status in Rural Vietnam; Table 3.4 Poverty, Inequality, and Landholding Status, by Region; Figure 3.2 Lorenz Curves for Annual and Perennial Cropland in Rural Vietnam, 1993 and 2004

Figure 3.3 Households Classified as Poor by the Commune, 1999 and 2003 Figure 3.4 Self-Assessed Increases in Living Standards, 1999-2004; Table 3A.1 Determinants of Farm Profits; Table 3B.1 Means of Key Variables by Age Cohort, 1993 and 2004; 4 Welfare Impacts of Privatizing Land-Use Rights; Table 4.1 Reduced-Form Regressions for Consumption; Table 4.2 Determinants of Consumption; Table 4.3 Actual Land Allocations Compared to Consumption-Efficient Allocations; Table 4.4 Mean Consumption, Inequality, and Poverty under Alternative Land Allocations

Figure 4.1 Distribution of Consumption Losses Relative to the Efficient Allocation Table 4.5 Mean Consumption, Inequality, and Poverty with Mobility between Communes; 5 Land Reallocation after the Introduction



of a Land Market; Figure 5.1 Proportionate Land Reallocations from 1993 to 1998 against the Proportionate Land Deficit (Efficient Minus Actual) in 1993; Figure 5.2 Proportionate Land Reallocations from 1993 to 1998 Relative to the 1993 Efficiency Loss, Stratified by Quintile of 1993 Household Consumption per Person

Table 5.1 Proportionate Gain in Allocated Annual Agricultural Land, 1993-98 Table 5.2 Effects of Adding Controls on the Partial Adjustment Coefficients; Table 5.3 Determinants of Changes in Allocated Annual Agricultural Land; Table 5.4 Disposal of Allocated Land; 6 Rising Landlessness: A Sign of Success or Failure?; Figure 6.1 Landlessness and Consumption per Person in Rural Vietnam, 1993 and 2004; Figure 6.2 Noncultivating Households Compared with Landless Households, 1993 and 2004; Figure 6.3 Landlessness and Consumption per Person for Ethnic Minorities, 1993 and 2004

Figure 6.4 Landlessness and Consumption in Rural Areas of the Two Deltas, 1993 and 2004 Figure 6.5 Land and Living Standards for Those with Land, 1993 and 2004; Figure 6.6 Share of Annual Cropland That Is Irrigated, 1998 and 2004; Figure 6.7 Land-Quality Gradients as Assessed by Commune Authorities, 1998 and 2004; Figure 6.8 Incidence of Market-Based Land Transactions, 1994-2004; Figure 6.9 Incidence of Land Selling, 1997 and 2003; Figure 6.10 Incidence of Land Buying; Figure 6.11 Sources of Land in Rural Vietnam, 2004

Figure 6.12 Incidence of Land Titles Based on the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey, 2004

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a case study of Vietnam's efforts to fight poverty using market-oriented land reforms. In the 1980's and 1990's, 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 administration