Urban-biased policies and the increasing rural-urban expenditure gap in Vietnam in the 1990s

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: FESSELMEYER, Eric, LE, Kien T.
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• الموضوعات: rural-urban gap; urban-biased policy; Vietnam; Asian Studies; Urban Studies
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research_all/14; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research_all/article/1013/viewcontent/Asian_Economic_Journal___2010___Fesselmeyer___Urban_biased_Policies_and_the_Increasing_Rural_Urban_Expenditure_Gap_in.pdf

There was a significant and widening rural-urban gap during the economic boom in Vietnam in the 1990s. Using an econometric decomposition, we find that differences in individual characteristics such as education, ethnicity and age are the primary explanation for this widening gap, whereas difference...