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  1. Library Resource

    Summary of Priority Policy Recommendations Drawn form World Bank Studies

    Training Resources & Tools
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2012
    Vietnam, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Vietnam's rapid and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in the last two decades benefitted from the policy and legal reforms embodied in the Land Laws of 1987, 1993 and 2003 and subsequent related legal acts. This note outlines reforms related to four main themes. The first relates to the needed reform for agriculture land use to create opportunity to enhance effectiveness of land use as well as to secure farmers' rights in land use. Prolonging the duration of agricultural land tenure would give land users greater incentives to invest and care for the land.

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Vietnam

    Urbanization, which is almost completed
    now in developed countries and even in Latin America, is now
    proceeding in much of Asia at an unprecedented rate. Many of
    the countries in the region have up to half their population
    now living urban lifestyles and increasingly also living in
    urban regions. The forms that urbanization is taking in the
    developing countries, however, are problematic. Towns and
    cities that were never planned to have large populations are

  3. 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.

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Vietnam

    Vietnam's forests remain dependent
    on public resources, including international development
    assistance, for the delivery of public and private services
    that include timber production, state forest management,
    forest protection and biodiversity conservation, and
    extension and research. Public subsidies are also provided
    to smallholder forest owners to stimulate investments into
    the sector. For the Government it is important to

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Vietnam

    The decollectivization of agriculture in
    Vietnam was a crucial step in the country's transition
    to a market economy. But the assignment of land use rights
    had to be decentralized, and local cadres ostensibly had the
    power to corrupt this process. The authors assess the
    realized land allocation against explicit counterfactuals,
    including the simulated allocation implied by a competitive
    market-based privatization. The authors find that 95-99

  6. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Vietnam

    The authors examine the impact of land
    reform in Vietnam which gives households the power to
    exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their
    land-use rights. The authors expect this change to increase
    the incentives as well as the ability to undertake long-term
    investments on the part of households. Their
    difference-in-differences estimation strategy takes
    advantage of the variation across provinces in the issuance

  7. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Vietnam

    While liberalizing key factor markets is
    a crucial step in the transition from a socialist
    control-economy to a market economy, the process can be
    stalled by imperfect information, high transaction costs,
    and covert resistance from entrenched interests. The authors
    study land-market adjustment in the wake of Vietnam's
    reforms aiming to establish a free market in land-use rights
    following de-collectivization. Inefficiencies in the initial

  8. 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

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Vietnam

    Successive policies of the Government of
    Vietnam for economic reform and modernization have helped
    Vietnam to emerge as one of the world's fastest growing
    economies. The report provides continued recommendations on
    improving land policies to ensure efficiency of their
    practical implementation and to target at both economic
    development and social sustainability. Policies with regard
    to voluntary benefits sharing, promoting the participation

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