Storm in a rice bowl: Rice reform and poverty in Vietnam in the 1990s

Niimi, Yoko; Vasudeva-Dutta, Puja

doi:10.1080/1354786042000207326

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“…Jensen and Tarp (2005), for example, predict that poverty will rise following a revenue-neutral lowering of trade taxes. Niimi et al (2004) show that the employment in garment and textiles industries has been adversely affected in the 1990s by trade policies. Liu (2001) analyzes poverty and inequality of Vietnam using the Vietnam Living Standards Surveys (VLSS) 1992-93 and 1997-98.…”

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“…Trade liberalization and poverty are also connected though government revenue and vulnerability of the economy to negative external shocks. Winters et al (2004) provide an extensive survey on the relationship between trade liberalization and poverty. While they find no simple relationship, the empirical evidence broadly supports the notion that trade liberalization alleviates poverty in the long run and on an average basis.…”

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How Does Vietnam's Accession To The World Trade Organization Change The Spatial Incidence Of Poverty?

Fujii¹,

Roland‐Holst²

2008

Policy Research Working Papers

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Trade policies can promote aggregate efficiency, but the ensuing structural adjustments generally create both winners and losers. From an incomes perspective, trade liberalization can raise GDP per capita, but rates of emergence from poverty depend upon individual household characteristics of economic participation and asset holding. To fully realize the growth potential of trade, while limiting the risk of rising inequality, policies need to better account for microeconomic heterogeneity. One approach to this is the geographic targeting, which shifts resources to poor areas. This study combines an integrated microsimulation-CGE model with the small area estimation to evaluate the spatial incidence of Vietnam's accession to the WTO. Provincial-level poverty reduction after full liberalization was heterogeneous, ranging from 2.2 per cent to 14.3 per cent. Full liberalization will benefit the poor on a national basis, but the northwestern area of Vietnam is likely to lag behind. Furthermore, poverty can be shown to increase under comparable scenarios.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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How Does Vietnam's Accession To The World Trade Organization Change The Spatial Incidence Of Poverty?

Fujii¹,

Roland‐Holst²

2008

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…This approach was used by other transitions studies (Glewwe et al 2002;Niimi et al 2004Niimi et al , 2007Justino et al 2008).…”

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Transitions between states of labor-force participation among older Israelis

2014

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The study examines the labor-force behavior of Israelis at older ages, focusing on the determinants of the transitions between states of labor-force participation between 2005 and 2010. The study uses panel data from the first two waves of the SHARE-Israel longitudinal survey. A multinomial logit model is used to examine the impact of sociodemographic characteristics, health state, and economic resources on labor-force transitions of people aged 50-67. The results emphasize the role of age and poor health in ''pushing'' older people out of the labor force or ''keeping'' them there. Spouse's participation is found to encourage individuals to leave the labor force or to refrain from joining it. However, living with a participating spouse is negatively associated with staying out of the labor force, consistent with the dominance of the complementarity of leisure effect found in the literature. Wealth as an economic resource available to individuals for retirement is also found to encourage individuals to leave the labor force or to refrain from joining it.

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“…In the modeling of such poverty levels, it is usual in the literature either to employ a MNL model or to take the ordering in the observed outcomes into account via the use of ordered probit/logit models (see Watson, 2000; Glewwe et al. , 2001; Niimi et al ., 2004). The latter could be preferred because they utilize the inherent ordering of outcomes, but compared to the former, they are inflexible in that there is only one latent variable and hence only one parameter vector.…”

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Measuring the Attributes of Poverty and Its Persistence: A Case Study of Eritrea

Fissuh

Serieux

Harris

2011

Review of Income and Wealth

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This paper tries to identify the correlates of poverty in urban Eritrea using an estimation technique (the DOGEV model) that also allows for the inclusion of a measure of "persistence" in poverty levels from cross-sectional estimation. The results suggest that 17 percent of the probability of being moderately poor and 22 percent of the probability of being extremely poor in Eritrea was attributable to this "persistence"-a predisposition toward poverty likely due to latent attributes related to past experience of poverty itself. The results also suggest that, in the post-war economy of the mid-1990s, those with vocational training fared best among all education groups. Being a war veteran also had a strong negative association with the poverty-reflecting successful attempts to support that group. The receipt of remittances also reduced the likelihood of poverty; though receipts from outside Eritrea had a much stronger effect than receipts from within Eritrea.

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Storm in a rice bowl: Rice reform and poverty in Vietnam in the 1990s

Cited by 27 publications

References 4 publications

How Does Vietnam's Accession To The World Trade Organization Change The Spatial Incidence Of Poverty?

How Does Vietnam's Accession To The World Trade Organization Change The Spatial Incidence Of Poverty?

Transitions between states of labor-force participation among older Israelis

Measuring the Attributes of Poverty and Its Persistence: A Case Study of Eritrea

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