Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?

Are the household characteristics that are good for transition to a more diversified market-oriented development process in Vietnam also important for reducing poverty? Or are there tradeoffs? The determinants of both poverty incidence and particip...

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Main Authors:	van de Walle, Dominique, Cratty, Dorothy Jean
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	NONFARM SECTOR HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS NONFARM INCOME INCOME GENERATION DIVERSIFICATION RURAL POVERTY NONFARM SELF-EMPLOYMENT OFF FARM EMPLOYMENT LAND MARKETS LABOR MARKET CHARACTERISTICS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE HOUSEHOLD SIZE URBANIZATION DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ANALYTICAL WORK CDF COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS COMMUNITY LEVEL CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES CONSUMPTION GROWTH CREDIT CONSTRAINTS CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC WELFARE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL MODEL EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPLOYMENT ERROR TERM ERROR TERMS ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC GROUPS EXPLANATORY VARIABLES FARM ACTIVITIES FARM HOUSEHOLDS FARMING HOUSEHOLDS FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION FIXED EFFECTS GEOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS GLOBAL CONDITIONS GROWTH RATES GROWTH REGRESSION HEADCOUNT INDEX HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD WELFARE INCOME INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT INSURANCE LABOR MARKETS LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL COMMUNITY MARGINAL EFFECT MARKET ACTIVITIES MARKET ECONOMY MEASUREMENT ERROR NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE IMPACT NON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES OPPORTUNITY COSTS POLICY RESEARCH POOR GAIN POVERTY LINE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY STATUS PRIMARY SCHOOL PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC SERVICES REDUCING POVERTY REFORM PROGRAM RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RURAL AREAS RURAL ECONOMY RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE RURAL POOR RURAL POPULATION RURAL SETTINGS SAFETY NET SCALE ECONOMIES SHARECROPPING SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SOCIAL SERVICES STATE INTERVENTION STATISTICAL OFFICE TERMS OF TRADE TRADEOFFS TRANSACTION COSTS URBAN AREAS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2120327/emerging-nonfarm-market-economy-route-out-poverty-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19166

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Summary:	Are the household characteristics that are good for transition to a more diversified market-oriented development process in Vietnam also important for reducing poverty? Or are there tradeoffs? The determinants of both poverty incidence and participation in rural off-farm activities are modeled as functions of household and community characteristics using comprehensive national household surveys for 1993 and 1998. Despite some common causative factors, such as education and region of residence, the processes determining poverty and inhibiting diversification are clearly not the same. Participation in the emerging rural nonfarm market economy will be the route out of poverty for some, but certainly not all, of Vietnam's poor.

Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?

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