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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Vietnam

    In the wake of reforms to establish a free market in land-use rights, Vietnam is experiencing a pronounced rise in rural landlessness. To some observers this is a harmless by-product of a more efficient economy, while to others it signals the return of the pre-socialist class-structure, with the rural landless at the bottom of the economic ladder. The authors' theoretical model suggests that removing restrictions on land markets will increase landlessness among the poor, but that there will be both gainers and losers, with uncertain impacts on aggregate poverty.

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2014
    Indonesia

    This paper uses farm panel data from
    Indonesia to examine dynamic patterns of land use, capital
    investments, and wages in agriculture. The empirical
    analysis shows that an increase in real wages has induced
    the substitution of labor by machines among relatively large
    farmers. Large farmers tend to increase the scale of
    operation by renting in more land when real wages increase.
    Machines and land are complementary if the scale of

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2012
    Vietnam

    The policy reforms called for in the
    transition from a socialist command economy to a developing
    market economy bring both opportunities and risks to a
    country's citizens. In poor economies, the initial
    focus of reform efforts is naturally the rural sector, which
    is where one finds the bulk of the population and almost all
    the poor. Economic development will typically entail moving
    many rural households out of farming into more remunerative

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