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

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : World Bank, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 628 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 24 cm
• Disciplina: 330.9597
• Soggetto topico: Income distribution - Vietnam; Poverty - Vietnam; Households - Economic aspects - Vietnam
• Soggetto geografico: Vietnam Economic policy; Vietnam Economic conditions 1975-
• Altri autori: GlewwePaul <1958-> AgrawalNisha DollarDavid
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Economic growth, poverty, and household welfare in Vietnam
• ISBN: 1-280-08484-7; 9786610084845; 1-4175-0795-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910963207103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Bank regional and sectoral studies.