Is the emerging nonfarm market economy the route out of poverty in Vietnam

By Dominique van de Walle, Dorothyjean Cratty. 2003

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Are the household characteristics that are good for transition to a more diversified market-oriented development process in Vietnam also important for reducing poverty? Or are there tradeoffs? 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. Despite 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 nonfarm market economy will be the route out of poverty for some, but certainly not all, of Vietnam's poor.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research

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Agriculture for Development: Toward a New Paradigm (2009, background): “Rapid agricultural development also contributed substantially to the dramatic poverty reduction in Vietnam over the past 15 years and is likely to remain an important pathway out of poverty for many of Vietnam’s poor (van de Walle and Cratty, 2004).”
Access to Rural Credit Markets in Developing Countries, the Case of Vietnam: A Literature Review (2019, unknown): “Credit is believed to contribute to the improvement of both farm and non-farm income and household livelihood in rural areas [83,84].”
Non-Farm Activity, Household Expenditure, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Vietnam: 2002–2008 (2014, background): “Focusing on rural Vietnam in the 1990s, van de Walle and Cratty (2004) consider only the common factors that determine both poverty and non-farm participation.”
Does non-farm sector employment reduce rural poverty and vulnerability? Evidence from Vietnam and India (2015, methodology): “While building upon van de Walle and Cratty (2004) and Himanshu et al. (2013), our study takes account of the endogeneity issues based on national data in Vietnam and India.”
‘Credit Constraints and Determinants of the Cost of Capital in Vietnamese Manufacturing’ (2007, result): “This is in accordance with Van de Walle and Cratty (2004), who state that post-reform government policies in terms of access to credit has tended to favour urban areas.”
The rural non-farm sector: issues and evidence from developing countries (2001, background): “A recent study of Vietnam found that the lowest level of poverty in rural areas is among households whose income stems solely from off-farm self employment (van de Walle, 2000).”
Infrastructure: A survey of recent and upcoming issues (2006, background): “…infrastructure and services, but the constraints on physical access to job and product markets are bigger concerns for the rural poor (see for instance the case studies by Fan and his various co-authors on China, Thailand or Uganda or see van de Walle and Cratty 2004 for recent detailed studies).”