eBook

Economic growth, poverty, and household welfare in Vietnam

Dollar, David, Agrawal, Nisha, Glewwe, Paul

2004

Overview

\"Viet Nam is an economic success story - it transformed itself from a country in the 1980s as one of the poorest in the world, to a country in the 1990s with one of the world's highest growth rates. With the adoption of a new market-oriented policies, Viet Nam averaged an economic growth rate of 8 percent per year from 1990 to 2000, a growth rate accompanied by a large reduction in poverty, stemming from significant increases in school enrollment, and a rapid decrease in child malnutrition. The book uses an unusually rich set of macroeconomic, and household survey data, to examine several topics: the causes of the economic turnaround, and prospects for future growth; the impact of economic growth on household welfare, as measured by consumption expenditures, health, education, and other socioeconomic indicators; and, the nature of poverty in Viet Nam, and the effectiveness of government policies, intended to reduce same.\" Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; deskriptive Studie. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1993 bis 1998. (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku).

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank
• Subject: 1975 / AGRICULTURAL SECTOR / ANNUAL RATE / Arbeitskräftemobilität / Arbeitsmarkt / Armut / Armutsbekämpfung / Bildung / Bildung/Erziehung / Bildungspolitik / CENTRAL PLANNING / CHILD LABOR / CHILD NUTRITION / CLINICS / COMMODITIES / CPI / DATA COLLECTION / DEREGULATION / DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / DEVELOPMENT GOALS / DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME / DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH / DEVELOPMENT STUDIES / ECONOMIC ACTIVITY / Economic aspects / ECONOMIC CONDITIONS / ECONOMIC DATA / ECONOMIC GROWTH / ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT / ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE / ECONOMIC POLICIES / ECONOMIC POLICY / ECONOMIC REFORMS / ECONOMICS / EDUCATION & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / Einkommensverteilung / Entwicklungspolitik / Ernährung / ETHNIC MINORITIES / Ethnische Bevölkerungsgruppe/Volksgruppe / Ethnische Gruppe / EXCHANGE RATE / Familienbetrieb / FARM HOUSEHOLDS / FARMING HOUSEHOLDS / FINANCIAL CRISIS / FINANCIAL SUPPORT / FIXED EFFECTS / FOOD POLICY RESEARCH / Gesundheit / Gesundheitspolitik / Gesundheitszustand / GNP / GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT / GROWTH PATTERNS / GROWTH RATES / HEALTH CARE / HEALTH CARE SERVICES / HEALTH CENTER / HEALTH CENTERS / HEALTH INSURANCE / HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM / HEALTH SECTOR / HEALTH SERVICES / HEALTH SURVEY / Hochschulsystem / HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION / HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS / HOUSEHOLD SURVEY / HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS / HOUSEHOLD WELFARE / HOUSEHOLD WELFARE INDICATORS / Households / Households -- Economic aspects -- Vietnam / IMPORT QUOTAS / IMPORT TARIFFS / IMPORTS / INCOME COUNTRIES / INCOME DISTRIBUTION / Income distribution -- Vietnam / INFANT MORTALITY / INFLATION / INFLATION RATE / INTERNATIONAL LABOUR / INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS / Kind / Kinderarbeit / LABOR MARKET / LABOR MARKETS / LAND USE / Landwirtschaft / Lebensbedingungen / Lebensstandard / LIFE EXPECTANCY / LIFTING / LIVING STANDARDS / Lohnpolitik / LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES / Ländlicher Raum / MACROECONOMIC POLICY / MACROECONOMIC STABILITY / MALNUTRITION IN CHILDREN / MARKET ECONOMY / MARKET ORIENTATION / MEDICINES / Minderheit / MORTALITY / NATIONAL INCOME / NURSES / NUTRITION / POLICY CHANGE / POLICY CHANGES / POLICY REFORMS / POPULATION GROWTH / Poverty / Poverty -- Vietnam / POVERTY ANALYSIS / POVERTY INCIDENCE / POVERTY REDUCTION / POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY / Private Haushalte / PRIVATE SECTOR / Privathaushalt / PROPERTY RIGHTS / PUBLIC HEALTH CARE / PUBLIC SECTOR / RAPID GROWTH / REAL TERMS / REFORM POLICY / RESEARCH INSTITUTE / RURAL HOUSEHOLDS / SAFETY / SAFETY NET / SCHOOLS / Schulwesen / SECONDARY SCHOOLS / SECTOR EMPLOYMENT / SHARP REDUCTION / SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT / SOCIAL PERFORMANCE / SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATORS / Soziale Mobilität / Soziale Sicherheit / Soziale Situation / Sozialpolitik / Sozioökonomische Entwicklung / Sozioökonomischer Faktor / SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION / STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES / STATISTICAL OFFICE / Strukturwandel / STUDENT ENROLLMENT / UNEMPLOYMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH / Vietnam / Vietnam -- Economic conditions -- 1975 / Vietnam -- Economic policy / Wirtschaft / Wirtschaftsentwicklung / Wirtschaftsreformen / Wirtschaftswachstum / Wohlstand
• ISBN: 0821355430, 9780821355435