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Does foreign aid harm political institutions?
In: Journal of development economics, Band 118, S. 266-281
ISSN: 0304-3878
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Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of Aid
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 69, S. 1-5
Does foreign aid harm political institutions?
The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing between types of aid according to their frequency domain and stated objectives, we find this aggregate net effect is driven primarily by the positive contribution of more stable inflows of 'governance aid'. We conclude the data do not support the view that aid has had a systematic negative effect on political institutions.
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Political connections and land-related investment in rural Vietnam
In: Journal of development economics, Band 110, S. 291-302
ISSN: 0304-3878
Distributional impacts of the 2008 global food price spike in Vietnam
Agriculture and food cultivation production remains a key sector in the Vietnamese economy in terms of productive activities, income generation, and national export earnings. Higher world market prices should therefore in principle have a beneficial impact on rural farmers. This is based however on the assumption that world prices are transmitted and that farmers have the capacity to respond. In addition, many poorer farm households may be net consumers. Using data from the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) and the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) combined with available macro-data, this paper investigates how global price changes appear to have impacted on rural welfare in Vietnam during 2006-12. In this paper we study the case of rice in Vietnam, in the context of the 2008 food price spike. We analyse the responses of domestic producer and consumer prices, and discuss the policy actions taken by the government to help reduce the impact on consumers, as well as to continue to encourage production. We also look at the distributional impact of the resulting domestic price changes, using data from a specialist rural household survey to look at production response. Vietnam was effective in taking policy actions to limit the extent of transmission of the world price changes; and more poorer households benefitted from the price increase than lost.
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Political Connections and Land-Related Investment in Rural Vietnam
In: Journal of Development Economics, DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.01.011
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Formal and Informal Rural Credit in Four Provinces of Vietnam
In: Journal of Development Studies 44(4):485-503. DOI: 10.1080/00220380801980798 (2008)
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Distributional Impacts of the 2008 Global Food Price Spike in Vietnam
In: UNU-WIDER Working Paper No. 01/2014; 2014/030(030)
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Access to Land: Market and Non-Market Land Transactions in Rural Vietnam
In: Land Tenure Reforms in Asia and Africa: Assessing Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management, Chapter: Access to Land: Market and Non-market Land Transactions in Rural Vietnam (ch.7), Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan:, Editors: Stein Holden, Keijiro Otsuka, Klaus Deininger, pp.162-186, 2013
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Jobs and Welfare in Mozambique
In: UNU-WIDER working paper 04/2013; 2013/045.
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Aid and Growth What Meta-Analysis Reveals
In: Journal of Development Studies 49(4). DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2012.709621
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Firm-Level Corruption in Vietnam
In: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Band 60, Heft 3, S. 571-595
ISSN: 1539-2988
Is the Clean Development Mechanism Promoting Sustainable Development?
In: UNU-WIDER Working Paper 08/2012; 2012/72(WP/072)
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Globalization crises, trade, and development in Vietnam
Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in weathering the external shocks of recent globalization crises - the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the 2008-09 great recession, financial crisis and collapse of global trade. Its success contradicts its characterization as an example of export-led growth and highlights the role of the state, particularly in maintaining and influencing investment. Examination of economic performance and policy responses shows rising dependence on foreign finance around each crisis, and actions by the government to counteract that dependence and bolster the domestic economy while continuing to restructure the economy toward greater emphasis on the private sector. Growth, employment and poverty alleviation have been maintained at the expense of renewed inflation, larger budget deficits, and currency depreciation. The stop-go nature of present macroeconomic policy is the consequence of balancing growth versus inflation, responding to severe external shocks and holding to a growth objective in the face of substantial internal and external criticism.
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