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...ce of income and jobs.sWhile a number of authors and empirical studies have examined thespattern of poverty reduction in Vietnam (for instance, Glewwe et al.s2004, Minot et al. 2003, UNDP 2004, World =-=Bank 1999-=-), relatively littlesattention has been paid to income diversification issues. The limitedswork includes papers by van de Walle and Cratty (2004) and by Minot etsal. (2006). The first study examines c...

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...ereafter called LSMS 1993, LSMS 1998, LSMS 2002, LSMS 2004, andsLSMS 2006]. These are nationally representative, high quality surveysswith comprehensive and carefully collected data (GSO 2004b, Worlds=-=Bank 1995-=-). Each sample was selected to be representative at the regionlevel; the sample sizes are large—4,800, 6,000, 30,000, 9,000 and 9,000shouseholds for the LSMS 1993, 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006 respective...

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...wnsOaxaca method (1973). This method has been widely used in differentsfields of study, including analysis of gender pay differentials (Adamchiksand Bedi 2003),srural-urban difference in consumption (=-=Wodon 1999-=-),sandstemporal growth in consumption (Glewwe et al. 2002). At thesmean, changes (growth) in consumption may be decomposed into a proportion that may be attributed to changes in observed characteristi...

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...the share of non-farm income (off-farm business and non-farmswage employment) to 31.4 percent. For a comparison, this similar account wassabout 38 percent in selected villages in rural China in 2000 (=-=Xiaoping 2007-=-) ands50 percent of household income in rural China as a whole in 2001 (Janvry et al.s2005).s9 The empirical picture provided here is similar to the story in other synthesissstudies, for example Carle...