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

• Main Authors: FESSELMEYER, Eric, LE, Kien T.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: rural-urban gap; urban-biased policy; Vietnam; Asian Studies; Urban Studies
• Online Access: 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...