Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Rapid Economic Growth But Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the Sdgs for Equitable Development?

“…To that effect, our analysis examines a new aspect of poverty in the country and reveals a rise in the segregation of its poor. This new finding lends further support to those in the existing studies that poorer population groups are both spatially and ethnically concentrated (Benjamin, Brandt, and McCaig, 2017;Lanjouw, Marra, and Nguyen, 2017;Fujii, 2018). As such, although…”

“…Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth was not uniform: while inequality gaps between urban and rural areas have been found to narrow over time, they have widened within urban and rural areas (Bui and Imai, 2019). 1 Furthermore, poverty rates became concentrated spatially (Lanjouw, Marra, and Nguyen, 2017) and among ethnic minority groups (Benjamin, Brandt, and McCaig, 2017), suggesting that attention can be focused on these particular groups for more effective poverty amelioration.…”

Minimum wage, firm dynamics, and wage inequality: Theory and evidence​

“…11 Our new theoretical results on income and welfare are also highly relevant for developing countries, for example, in Vietnam. As pointed out by Benjamin et al (2017), despite the urbanization process under which workers from rural areas moved to urban areas to seek job opportunities, agriculture remains an important source of income for the rural households in the long run. Furthermore, labor market development occurs not only in urban areas but also in rural areas, with high earning opportunities in agriculture as a key driver for reducing income inequality in Vietnam in the period 2002-2014.…”