Overview

This book offers a set of methods, drawing on the tool kit of modern economics, to ascertain what Vietnam's economy would have looked like without reforms and assesses what types of households are likely to gain from the reforms. The book's findings have implications on broader issues of social protection in developing rural economies.

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'Land in Transition provides a thought-provoking read. Through a comprehensive, yet comprehensible analysis of lessons learned from Vietnam's land reforms, Ravallion and van de Walle share with us insights gained from a thoughtful study of key issues for poverty reduction and social protection in a developing country on the road to a market economy.' - Moe Thuzar, Asean Economic Bulletin 'This excellent book...is a valuable publication, which should be of great interest to scholars and students of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian studies, as well as to anyone interested in development studies and transition economies.' - Newsletter of the Association of Southeast Asian Studies

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MARTIN RAVALLION is Senior Research Manager in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics, and Political Science, UK, and has taught economics at L.S.E., Oxford University, the Australian National University, and Princeton University. His main research interests over the last twenty years have concerned poverty and policies for fighting it. He has advised numerous governments and international agencies on this topic, and he has written extensively on this and other subjects in economics, including two books and over 150 p

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