Land in Transition : Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam

Ravallion, Martin ; van de Walle, Dominique

Washington, DC : World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan

关键词: ABSOLUTE POVERTY;    ACCOUNTABILITY;    AGRARIAN REFORM;    AGRARIAN REFORMS;    AGRARIAN STRUCTURE;   

DOI  :  10.1596/978-0-8213-7274-6
RP-ID  :  43966

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The policy reforms called for in thetransition from a socialist command economy to a developingmarket economy bring both opportunities and risks to acountry's citizens. In poor economies, the initialfocus of reform efforts is naturally the rural sector, whichis where one finds the bulk of the population and almost allthe poor. Economic development will typically entail movingmany rural households out of farming into more remunerative(urban and rural) non-farm activities. Reforms that shiftthe rural economy from the relatively rigid, control-basedfarming institutions found under socialist agriculture to amore flexible, market-based model in which productionincentives are strong can thus play an important role in theprocess of economic growth. However, such reforms present amajor challenge to policy makers, who are concerned thatthey will generate socially unacceptable inequalities inland and other dimensions relevant to people's livingstandards. This book studies how the changes in landinstitutions and land allocation required for Vietnam'sagrarian transition affected people's livingstandards-notably that of the country's rural poor.Living standards means household command over commodities,as measured by consumption