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Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new extensive province‐level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) spanning ...
Hai‐Anh H. Dang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Pollution Control Foster Innovation? Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From China's Two‐Control Zone Policy

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies the impact of environmental regulation on firms' innovation by analyzing the two‐control zone (TCZ) policy in China. This policy imposed stricter sulfur dioxide emission requirements on firms in regulated cities. Leveraging its uneven implementation across regions, we compare the innovative development of firms in cities ...
Isea Cieply, Feicheng Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Accounting, Remittances, and Celebrations

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is one KGS of remittance income equal to one KGS of another source of income? The traditional concept of fungibility suggests that it is. However, if it is not, then migrant money transfers may cause behavioral changes at the household level, and their development impact can be huge.
Nurgul Tilenbaeva
wiley   +1 more source

Trade in Value‐Added and the Welfare Gains of International Fragmentation

open access: yesReview of International Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the overall impact of international production fragmentation on the welfare gains from trade. Using a novel model that accounts for shifts in preferences between local and foreign goods and distinguishes between intermediate and final goods trade, we gain a more nuanced understanding of how fragmentation shapes these ...
Arnold Njike
wiley   +1 more source

The Microeconomics of Poverty Traps in Mexico [PDF]

open access: yes
Macroeconomists, development scholars, and policy makers have long recognized the importance of poverty traps as a mayor cause of persistent inequality and a serious limitation to growth.
Hector J. Villarreal, Jean-Paul Chavas
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