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      Publications (271)

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      Journal Article
      Imports, supply chains and firm productivity
      Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp - World Development , 2023
      This study explores how competition-induced productivity gains from imports in intermediate producing sectors transmit through the supply chain. Based on firm-level panel data from Vietnam, we show that in addition to the productivity premium associated with importing intermediate inputs, firms that...
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      Temperature, climate change, and household financial behaviour
      – Evidence from Viet Nam
      Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Trong-Anh Trinh, Michael Danquah - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      We examine the impact of temperature shocks and climate change on household financial behaviour in Viet Nam. To do so, we first estimate the effect of temperature on household borrowing and savings using Vietnamese longitudinal data that matches satellite reanalysis temperature data with household...
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      SOUTHMOD country report Viet Nam - VNMOD v3.3
      Duong Anh Nguyen, Minh Binh Tran, Anh Mai Le - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This report documents VNMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Viet Nam. This work has been carried out by the Central Institute for Economic Management ( CIEM ) in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and SASPRI. The results presented in this report are derived using VNMOD version 3.3 running on EUROMOD...
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      Changing male perceptions of gender equality
      – Evidence from a randomised controlled trial study
      Cuong Viet Nguyen, Finn Tarp - World Development , 2022
      In this study, we use a randomized control trial to examine whether asking Vietnamese men to reflect on gender equality can reduce their gender bias. We randomly selected two groups of married men in four rural provinces and asked the first group to make comments on gender-related laws and the...
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      Maternity benefits mandate and women’s choice of work in Vietnam
      Khoa Vu, Paul Glewwe - World Development , 2022
      Part of Journal Special Issue Women’s Work
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      Impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns and aid packages
      – Evidence from Viet Nam
      Cuong Viet Nguyen - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      In view of the detrimental effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on household welfare, most countries implemented economic stimulus aid packages to support households. The extent to which these packages mitigated the pandemic’s adverse effects on households is not just an intriguing question for researchers...
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      Does an effective government lower COVID-19’s health impact?
      – Evidence from Viet Nam
      Duc Anh Dang, Ngoc Anh Tran - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      Government effectiveness has played an important role in tackling the crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This paper discusses the different aspects of government effectiveness in explaining the variation in the COVID-19 confirmed cases and death levels in Viet Nam. We use the...
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      Programme-135: addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam
      Tung Duc Phung, Thanh Minh Pham - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      Viet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities and the ethnic majority do not benefit equally from the national economic progress. The proportion of poor households that are ethnic minority-headed soared from 18 per cent in the...
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      SOUTHMOD country report Viet Nam - VNMOD v2.3
      Duong Anh Nguyen, Minh Binh Tran, Anh Mai Le - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      View the latest VNMOD country report here . This report documents VNMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Viet Nam. This work has been carried out by the Central Institute for Economic Management ( CIEM ) in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and SASPRI. The results presented in this report are derived...
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      Behind the scenes
      – Meet our tax-benefit microsimulation team in Viet Nam!
      Anna Toppari - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      How can Vietnamese policymakers improve their policy choices related to social protection and tax policies? Who are the experts providing evidence on different policy scenarios and their pros and cons to local decision makers? Meet our SOUTHMOD national team working in Hanoi who are leading the...
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      A policy of longer maternity leave is not enough to protect women from disadvantage
      Tu Thi Ngoc Le - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      The length of maternity leave has direct impacts on critical gender equality outcomes such as women’s employment and lifetime earnings. However, there are different perspectives on the most appropriate duration of maternity leave and how it may impact these outcomes. There is no definite consensus...
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      Temperature shocks, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households
      Adelaide Baronchelli, Roberto Ricciuti - Ecological Economics , 2022
      This study analyses the relationship between temperature shocks and migration in rural households in Vietnam. To control for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration we use monthly minimum temperatures in the growing season as an instrument of rice production. In this way, we...
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      The gender employment gap: the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet Nam
      Tu Thi Ngoc Le, Ngoc Thi Bich Pham - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women’s employment of the extension of maternity leave from four months to six months in Viet Nam’s 2012 Labor Code. To identify this effect, labour market outcomes of groups of women and men are compared. We use the national...
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      Maternity benefits mandate and women’s choice of work in Viet Nam
      Khoa Vu, Paul Glewwe - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      Despite a sizeable literature on the labour market effects of maternity leave regulations on women in developed countries, how these policies affect women’s work in developing countries with a large informal sector remains poorly understood. This study examines how extending the maternity leave...
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      Forecasting recovery from COVID-19 using financial data
      – An application to Viet Nam
      Jesse Lastunen, Matteo Richiardi - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      We develop a new methodology to nowcast the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and forecast its evolution in small, export-oriented countries. To this aim, we exploit variation in financial indexes at the industry level and relate them to the expected duration of the crisis for each industry, under the...
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      The political economy of small and medium-sized enterprise development
      – Characteristics, productive value and market constraints in industrial manufacturing
      Christine Ngoc Ngo, Miao Chi - Journal of Southeast Asian Economies , 2020
      This study analyses the differentials of productive values in Vietnamese micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and how market constraints have hindered their performance. Quantitative analyses suggest substantial differences in value addition among manufacturing MSMEs, and the crucial...
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