Has the development gap between the ethnic minority and majority groups narrowed in Vietnam?: Evidence from household surveys

• المؤلف الرئيسي: FUJII, Tomoki
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• الموضوعات: ethnic minority; inequality; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition; poverty decomposition; Vietnam; Asian Studies; Behavioral Economics; Race and Ethnicity
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2137; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3137/viewcontent/adbi_wp661.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

Using household data for rural northern Vietnam between 1993 and 2014, we find that the ethnic minority group continued to lag behind the majority group in various development indicators despite the overall improvement in living standards. Our regression and decomposition analyses show that the stru...