Land in Transition : Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam

Land in Transition : Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam

The policy reforms called for in the transition from a socialist command economy to a developing market economy bring both opportunities and risks to a country's citizens. In poor economies, the initial focus of reform efforts is naturally the...

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Main Authors:	Ravallion, Martin, van de Walle, Dominique
Format:	Publication
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC : World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY ACCOUNTABILITY AGRARIAN REFORM AGRARIAN REFORMS AGRARIAN STRUCTURE AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURAL POLICY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AGRICULTURAL WAGE AGRICULTURE ALLOCATION ALLOCATION OF LAND ANTIPOVERTY POLICIES AUTONOMY BARGAINING MODELS BUREAUCRACY CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS CLAIMS OVER LAND COLLECTIVE FARMING COLLECTIVE LAND COMMERCIAL BANK COMMUNAL TENURE COMMUNISM COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT CONFLICT CONSOLIDATION COUNTERFACTUAL CROPLAND CROPS CULTIVATION DISTRIBUTION OF LAND DISTRIBUTIONAL OUTCOMES ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS EGALITARIANISM EQUIPMENT ETHNIC GROUPS ETHNIC MINORITIES EXTREME POVERTY FAMINE FARM HOUSEHOLDS FARMLAND FEED FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FOOD AID FOOD AVAILABILITY FOOD SUPPLY GAME THEORY GENDER HIGH INEQUALITY HIGHER INEQUALITY HISTORICAL CONTEXT HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUNGER IDEOLOGY IDIOSYNCRATIC SHOCKS IMPACT ASSESSMENTS IMPACT ON POVERTY IMPERFECT INFORMATION INCOME INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY INCOMES INEQUALITY INSURANCE IRRIGATION LABOR MARKETS LAND APPROPRIATION LAND ASSETS LAND CONSOLIDATION LAND INEQUALITY LAND LAW LAND MARKETS LAND OWNERSHIP LAND PARCELS LAND QUALITY LAND REALLOCATION LAND REDISTRIBUTION LAND REFORM LAND REFORMS LAND RIGHTS LAND TENURE LAND TENURE REFORM LAND TITLES LAND TITLING LAND TRANSFERS LAND USE LANDHOLDINGS LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LANDLESS LABORERS LANDLESSNESS LANDOWNERS LAWS LIVELIHOODS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MARKET ECONOMIES MARKET ECONOMY MARKET FAILURES MARKETING MIGRATION POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POOR ECONOMIES POOR FAMILIES POOR FARMERS POOR PEOPLE POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATE LAND PRIVATE OWNERSHIP PRIVATIZATION PRODUCTIVITY PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC EXPENDITURES PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC POLICY REPUBLIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION RETIREMENT RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITY RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL ECONOMIC GROWTH RURAL ECONOMY RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL INEQUALITIES RURAL INSTITUTIONS RURAL POOR RURAL POPULATION RURAL PRODUCTION RURAL ROADS RURAL SECTOR RURAL WORKERS SAFETY NETS SMALL FARMS SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SOCIAL COSTS SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIALISM STRUCTURAL REFORMS SUBSIDIARY TARGETING TAX TENANT FARMERS TRADE-OFF TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNIVERSITIES URBANIZATION VILLAGE ECONOMIES WAGE RATES WAR
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/01/9484380/land-transition-reform-poverty-rural-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6433

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Summary:	The policy reforms called for in the transition from a socialist command economy to a developing market economy bring both opportunities and risks to a country's citizens. In poor economies, the initial focus of reform efforts is naturally the rural sector, which is where one finds the bulk of the population and almost all the poor. Economic development will typically entail moving many rural households out of farming into more remunerative (urban and rural) non-farm activities. Reforms that shift the rural economy from the relatively rigid, control-based farming institutions found under socialist agriculture to a more flexible, market-based model in which production incentives are strong can thus play an important role in the process of economic growth. However, such reforms present a major challenge to policy makers, who are concerned that they will generate socially unacceptable inequalities in land and other dimensions relevant to people's living standards. This book studies how the changes in land institutions and land allocation required for Vietnam's agrarian transition affected people's living standards-notably that of the country's rural poor. Living standards means household command over commodities, as measured by consumption

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