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
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2120327/emerging-nonfarm-market-economy-route-out-poverty-vietnam
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spelling okr-10986-191662021-04-23T14:03:41Z Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam? van de Walle, Dominique Cratty, Dorothy Jean 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 DIVERSIFICATION 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 SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE INCOME INCOME GENERATION 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 POVERTY 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 URBANIZATION 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. 2014-08-01T15:13:02Z 2014-08-01T15:13:02Z 2003-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2120327/emerging-nonfarm-market-economy-route-out-poverty-vietnam http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19166 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2950 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Vietnam
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topic 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
DIVERSIFICATION
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 SIZE
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
HOUSEHOLD WELFARE
INCOME
INCOME GENERATION
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 POVERTY
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
URBANIZATION
spellingShingle 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
DIVERSIFICATION
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 SIZE
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
HOUSEHOLD WELFARE
INCOME
INCOME GENERATION
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 POVERTY
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
URBANIZATION
van de Walle, Dominique
Cratty, Dorothy Jean
Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
Vietnam
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2950
description 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.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author van de Walle, Dominique
Cratty, Dorothy Jean
author_facet van de Walle, Dominique
Cratty, Dorothy Jean
author_sort van de Walle, Dominique
title Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?
title_short Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?
title_full Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?
title_fullStr Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?
title_full_unstemmed Is the Emerging Nonfarm Market Economy the Route Out of Poverty in Vietnam?
title_sort is the emerging nonfarm market economy the route out of poverty in vietnam?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url 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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