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VN trade strategy until 2015 unveiled
06/08/2010
The Ministry of Trade yesterday released its domestic trade development strategy until 2015 for public scrutiny, aiming to address the possible influx of foreign investors in Vietnam once the nation joins the World Trade Organisation.
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SME support: Government’s role needs improvement
06/08/2010
The conclusion of a survey conducted by the research group from the Economics University of Stockholm, Sweden stated that...
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Farmers need new technology, skills to cope with industrialisation
06/08/2010
The nation’s farmers are adjusting to industrialisation. The dean of Can Tho University’s agriculture department, Assoc Prof Nguyen Bao Ve, discussed ways to smooth the transition with Tin Tuc (News) newspaper.
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Accelerating service export
06/08/2010
In the 2001 – 2005 period, Vietnam’s export service grew by 15.7% per annum on the average, higher than the projected target of 15%. Service export value increased from $3.32 billion in 2001 to $5.65 billion in 2005, exceeding the expected goal of $4 billion.
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Extortion at the gate Will Viet Nam join the WTO on pro-development terms?
06/08/2010
As Viet Nam negotiates entry to the World Trade Organisation, the world’s most powerful countries are working hard to exact the onerous ‘WTO-plus’ commitments which have become characteristic of accession proceedings. Membership could help Viet Nam to benefit from international trade, supporting its efforts to reduce poverty, but the demands from rich countries for excessive liberalisation of imports and foreign investment threaten to undermine this goal and to destroy livelihoods, particularly in rural areas.
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Is the emerging non-farm market economy the route out of poverty in Vietnam?
06/08/2010
Abstract: Are the household characteristics that are good for the transition to a more diversified
market-oriented economy in Vietnam also important for reducing poverty?
Or are there trade-offs? 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. While there are 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 non-farm market
economy will be the route out of poverty for some, but certainly not all, of Vietnam’s
poor.
JEL classifications: I30, O12, O53.
Keywords:
Poverty, welfare, income diversification, off-farm income, Vietnam.
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