Growth, structural transformation, and rural change in Viet Nam : a rising dragon on the move

• Main Authors: Tarp, Finn, World Institute for Development Economics Research
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2017; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Series: WIDER Studies in Development Economics
• Subjects: agriculture; Business & Economics; Developing & Emerging Countries; Development; Development economics and emerging economies; development process; Development studies; Economic Conditions; Economic Development and Growth; Economic growth; Economics; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; household survey; Interdisciplinary studies; poverty reduction; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Rice; Rural development; Rural development > Vietnam; Social Science; structural transformation; viet nam; Vietnam; Vietnam > Economic conditions > 21st century; Vietnamese people; agriculture; structural transformation; Viet Nam; development process; poverty reduction; household survey

Many developing countries—Viet Nam included—continue to struggle to raise incomes per capita. A common feature of the growth and development process is a fundamental change in the pattern of economic activity, as households reallocate labour from traditional agriculture to more productive forms of a...