The vast majority of households in rural Viet Nam undertake agricultural activities and for many this is their main livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time. This paper uses the five wave VARHS balanced panel data set to analyse three aspects of...

While many studies of welfare dynamics have been conducted using panel data sets with two or three waves, much richer insights can be obtained where more waves are available. This paper analyses this issue for the case of the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey, a carefully collected...

This paper looks at the relationship between growth and the poorest based on a panel data set – where the same household is surveyed at more than one point in time.It examines the extent to which the poorest are able to participate in growth using a panel data set of more than 1000 households...