China is now the world's fourth largest economy and growing very fast. India's economic salience is also on the rise. Together these two countries will profoundly influence the pace and nature of global economic change. Drawing upon the latest research, this volume analyzes the influences on the...

This paper analyses the poverty impact of Vietnam's reforms, especially with reference to the rice economy, during the 1990s. It reviews trade and institutional reforms that directly impinged on the rice sector, and the trends in rice production, consumption and prices throughout the 1990s. We...