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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam

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  • Mohamed Arouri

    (Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion)

  • Adel Ben Youssef

    (Economic Research Forum)

  • Cuong Nguyen-Viet

    (Mekong Development Research Institute and National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam)

Abstract

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression and panel data from household surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare and poverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that urbanization tends to increase landlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanization helps rural households increase their wages and non-farm incomes. As a result, total income and consumption expenditure of rural households tend to be increased with urbanization. Then we find that urbanization also helps rural households decrease the expenditure poverty rate, albeit at a small magnitude. JEL Codes: O18, I30, R11

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  • Mohamed Arouri & Adel Ben Youssef & Cuong Nguyen-Viet, 2016. "Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam," PGDA Working Papers 11514, Program on the Global Demography of Aging.
    • Handle: RePEc:gdm:wpaper:11514
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    3. Jaax, Alexander, 2020. "Private sector development and provincial patterns of poverty: Evidence from Vietnam," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
    4. Elisabeth Simelton & Tuan Minh Duong & Ella Houzer, 2021. "When the “Strong Arms” Leave the Farms—Migration, Gender Roles and Risk Reduction in Vietnam," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-30, April.

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    Keywords

    urbanization; household welfare; rural poverty; impact evaluation; household surveys; Vietnam; Asia;
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    JEL classification:

    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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