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Household Savings in Vietnam: Insights from a 2006 Rural Household Survey
Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van den Broeck, Katleen; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
determinants of household saving with special interest in the possible effects of network savings behavior on household savings … stimulate formal household savings making. We discuss the extent to which social networks may act as an effective information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011191510
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Social Capital and Savings Behaviour: Evidence from Vietnam
Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Broeck, Katleen Van Den - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2011
We explore the extent to which social capital can play a role in imparting information about the returns to saving where potential knowledge gaps and mistrust exists. Using data from Vietnam we find strong evidence to support the hypothesis that information transmitted via reputable social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838201
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Formal and Informal Rural Credit in Four Provinces of Vietnam
Barslund, Mikkel; Tarp, Finn - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2007
This paper uses a survey of 932 rural households to uncover how the rural credit market operates in four provinces of Vietnam. Households obtain credit through formal and informal lenders. Formal loans are almost entirely for production and asset accumulation, while informal loans are used for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005225431
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Rural Credit in Vietnam
Barslund, Mikkel; Tarp, Finn - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2006
This paper uses a survey of 932 rural households to uncover how the rural credit market operates in four provinces of Vietnam. Households obtain credit through formal and informal lenders, but formal loans are almost entirely for production and asset accumulation. Interest rates fell from 1997...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749809
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Property Rights and Productivity: The Case of Joint Land Titling in Vietnam
Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Broeck, Katleen van den - In: Land Economics 91 (2015) 1
This paper explores the effect of land titling on agricultural productivity in Vietnam and the productivity effects of single versus joint titling for husband and wife. Using a plot-fixed-effects approach our results show that obtaining a land title is associated with higher yields, for both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132292
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Social capital, network effects and savings in rural Vietnam
Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van den Broeck, Katleen - 2012
savings where knowledge gaps exist. Networks are defined as active membership of women's unions and the quality of networks is … measured by the level of formal savings observed among group members. We find that membership of high quality networks leads to … formal networks could be effective in increasing formal savings at grassroots level. We also conclude that ensuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521583
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Social Capital, Network Effects and Savings in Rural Vietnam
Tarp, Finn - 2014
savings where knowledge gaps exist. Networks are defined as active membership of women’s unions and the quality of networks is … measured by the level of formal savings observed among group members. We find that membership of high quality networks leads to … formal networks could be effective in increasing formal savings at grassroots level. We also conclude that ensuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139813
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Technology transfers, foreign investment and productivity spillovers: evidence from Vietnam
Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Talbot, Theodore; Tarp, Finn - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity of domestic firms. Using a specially designed survey on a sample of over 7,500 manufacturing firms in Vietnam we uncover some of the mechanisms that explain productivity spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904666
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Political connections and investment in rural Vietnam
Markussen, Thomas; Tarp, Finn - 2011
This paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative in a position of political or bureaucratic power on farmers' agricultural investment decisions. Our main result is that households significantly increase their investment in land improvement as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280117
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Social capital, network effects and savings in rural Vietnam
Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn; Van Den Broeck, Katleen - 2012
savings where knowledge gaps exist. Networks are defined as active membership of women's unions and the quality of networks is … measured by the level of formal savings observed among group members. We find that membership of high quality networks leads to … formal networks could be effective in increasing formal savings at grassroots level. We also conclude that ensuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319955