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
• 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.: 9910828231203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Bank regional and sectoral studies.