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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963207103321

Titolo

Economic growth, poverty, and household welfare in Vietnam / / edited by Paul Glewwe, Nisha Agrawal, David Dollar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : World Bank, 2004

ISBN

1-280-08484-7

9786610084845

1-4175-0795-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 628 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 24 cm

Collana

World Bank regional and sectoral studies

Altri autori (Persone)

GlewwePaul <1958->

AgrawalNisha

DollarDavid

Disciplina

330.9597

Soggetti

Income distribution - Vietnam

Poverty - Vietnam

Households - Economic aspects - Vietnam

Vietnam Economic policy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Map of Vietnam; 1. An Overview of Economic Growth and Household Welfare in Vietnam in the 1990's; Part I. Vietnam's Economic Performance in the 1990's; 2. Reform, Growth, and Poverty; 3. The Wage Labor Market and Inequality in Vietnam; 4. Household Enterprises in Vietnam: Survival, Growth, and Living Standards; 5. Agriculture and Income Distribution in Rural Vietnam under Economic Reforms: A Tale of Two Regions; Part II. Poverty Reduction in Vietnam in the 1990's

6. The Static and Dynamic Incidence of Vietnam's Public Safety Net 7. The Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Vietnam and the Potential for Targeting; 8. Ethnic Minority Development in Vietnam: A Socioeconomic Perspective; Part III. Progress in Health and Education in Vietnam in the 1990's; 9. Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children under Doi Moi; 10. Child Nutrition, Economic Growth, and the Provision of



Health Care Services in Vietnam; 11. Patterns of Health Care Use in Vietnam: Analysis of 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey Data; 12. Trends in the Education Sector

13. An Investigation of the Determinants of School Progress and Academic Achievement in Vietnam Part IV. Other Topics; 14. Child Labor in Transition in Vietnam; 15. Economic Mobility in Vietnam; 16. Private Interhousehold Transfers in Vietnam; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Figures; 2.1 Per Capita GDP Growth Rates, 1960's to 1990's; 2.2 Convergence and Divergence in Per Capita GDP Growth Rates in the 1990's; 2.3 Economic Growth and Income of the Poor; 2.4 Increased Trade and Changes in Inequality; 2.5 Indicators of Vietnam's Reforms: Mid-1980's to Late 1990's

2.6 Effect of Economic Reform on Poverty, 1988-98 2.7 Poverty Reduction and Growth Rate in India, Vietnam, and China, 1992-98; 2.8 Conditional Convergence, 1995-2035; 2.9 Governance Pentagons: Vietnam, India, Thailand, Myanmar, and China; 2.10 Global Competitiveness Report Rankings: Vietnam, China, and India; 2.11 Maritime Transport to the United States (West Coast): Garments; 2.12 Foreign Direct Investment as a Share of GDP, 1998; 2.13 Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam in the 1990's; 3.1 Economic Growth in Vietnam

3.2 Levels of Schooling versus Labor Market Returns to Schooling by Region, 1998 3.3 Agricultural Labor Force Compared with Income Level; 4.1 Household Choices in 1993 and 1998; 5.1 Composition of Income, Vietnam; 5.2 Trends in Rice Production; 5.3 Trends in Total Agricultural Output; 5.4 The Distributional Impact of Changes in Rice Prices, Rural North; 5.5 The Distributional Impact of Changes in Rice Prices, Rural South; 7.1 Provincial Poverty Headcounts Estimated Using Urban-Rural and Stratum-Level Regression Models

7.2 Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves for Selected Targeting Variables

Sommario/riassunto

Macroeconomic and household survey data from Vietnam is used to examine how it has transformed itself from one of the poorest countries in the world in the 1980s to one of the most successful in the 1990s.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143868203321

Titolo

Artificial Neural Nets. Problem Solving Methods : 7th International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN 2003, Maó, Menorca, Spain, June 3-6. Proceedings, Part II / / edited by José Mira, José R. Alvarez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003

ISBN

3-540-44869-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2003.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVIII, 828 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 2687

Disciplina

591.888

Soggetti

Artificial intelligence

Computers

Algorithms

Optical data processing

Pattern perception

Evolution (Biology)

Artificial Intelligence

Computation by Abstract Devices

Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Pattern Recognition

Evolutionary Biology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Nets Design -- Applications in Robotics -- Sources Separation -- Genetics Algorithms -- Soft-Computing -- Images -- Medical Applications -- Other Applications.

Sommario/riassunto

The two-volume set LNCS 2686 and LNCS 2687 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN 2003, held in Maó, Menorca, Spain in June 2003.The 197 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed



and selected for inclusion in the book and address the following topics: mathematical and computational methods in neural modelling, neurophysiological data analysis and modelling, structural and functional models of neurons, learning and other plasticity phenomena, complex systems dynamics, cognitive processes and artificial intelligence, methodologies for net design, bio-inspired systems and engineering, and applications in a broad variety of fields.