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Vietnam is among the countries that are assumed to be highly affected by the impacts of climate change through sea …, industrial and agricultural uses. Fifty-six climate change scenarios for Vietnam were selected that span a range of wet to dry … future climates for Vietnam. A set of biophysical models were employed to project the impacts on water supply, water demand …
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. Biophysical damages are translated into economic costs using a dynamic economywide model. Our results for Vietnam indicate that … levels and cyclone strikes. Overall, climate change is likely to reduce Vietnam's national income by between one and two …
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Climate change is a potential threat to Vietnam's development as current and future infrastructure will be vulnerable … to climate change impacts. This paper focuses on the physical asset of road infrastructure in Vietnam by evaluating the …
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This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have … the differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated … based on equivalent income. These differences are illustrated using household-level panel data from Russia and Vietnam. …
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poverty reduction in Mozambique than in Vietnam. Investing in these areas can significantly enhance the effectiveness of …While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and …
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While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is remarkably little evidence of the direct impacts of such reforms. In an effort to fill this lacunae, this paper examines South Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural...
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This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Viet Nam. We propose an instrumental variable approach that controls for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration using monthly minimum temperatures in the growing season as an...
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We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with...
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welfare indicators, in particular poverty. We also found that horizontal inequality does matter for poverty reduction in Viet … Nam and it needs more attention when designing poverty policies in the future. …
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, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the … poverty reduction. People's living standards have improved significantly, and the country's socio-economic achievements are …
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