Updating Poverty Maps without Panel Data: Evidence from Vietnam*

A household survey and a census can be combined to estimate a poverty map for small areas. Ideally, the survey and the census should be conducted in the same year. In several empirical applications, however, survey and census years can be different, which might make poverty estimates biased. Using data from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey 2002 and the 1999 Population and Housing Census, the present paper produces a 2002 poverty map for Vietnam and describes the biases when the survey and census years are not coincident. It is found that poverty estimates from the poverty mapping method taking into account the time difference between the survey and the census are quite close to survey‐based estimates, at least at the regional level.     

战略性新兴产业金融风险研究

构建完善的金融体系支持战略性新兴产业发展具有必要性,但金融支持战略性新兴产业发展的过程中也存在潜在的金融风险。战略性新兴产业的高风险性、未来产能过剩的可能性、财政干预提供的隐性政府信用、地方政府债务风险、银行自身因素以及外源融资渠道过于集中于银行信贷等因素是导致战略性新兴产业存在潜在金融风险的主要原因,并使其金融风险具有自身的特点。对这些潜在的金融风险必须进行深入研究,做好防范和管理。     

改革实验室管理体制的探索及实践

本文分析了现行实验室管理体制所存在的问题。以集中、开放、挖潜为指导思想,提出了设置系属中心实验室的管理体制改革方案及配套措施。通过实验室管理体制改革的实施例,论证了该方案的可行性及其明显成效。     

浅谈如何设置砌体结构圈梁和构造柱

浅议砌体结构圈梁和构造柱的设置,从而提高了建筑物的抗震性能,延长其使用寿命。     

主体间性的研究视域

目前国内对主体间性主要围绕它的理论内涵及其运用展开,并在实践美学与后实践美学的论争中走向成熟。其实质在于对主体性问题的重新理解和在新的条件下对于文学研究的反思和进一步发展。作为新的理论形态的研究,它能否在美的本质和范畴上取得突破,也正是我们今后研究价值的理论空间。     

Impact of US market access on local labour markets in Vietnam

This paper examines the impact of US market access on local labour markets in a developing country, Vietnam. Following the implementation of the Vietnam–United States bilateral trade agreement (BTA) in December 2001, manufacturing employment increased in provinces that were more exposed to US tariff cuts. In those provinces, employment also increased in many service sectors, reflecting strong spillovers of job gains. Among three potential channels of local job gain spillovers, namely, demand, production and real estate, the demand channel is the most important. The BTA is also found to reduce employment gaps, especially in manufacturing, between females and males, rural and urban, and poor and rich households.     

The impact of work and non‐work migration on household welfare,poverty and inequality

This article estimates the impact of work migration and non‐work migration on per capita income, per capita expenditures, poverty and inequality in Vietnam using data from the two most recent Vietnam Household and Living Standard Surveys. We find that both work migration and non‐work migration have a positive impact on per capita expenditures of migrant‐sending households. Non‐work migration significantly decreases the incidence, depth and severity of national poverty. The effect of work migration on poverty is much smaller. Still, while work migration does not lift people out of poverty, it makes their poverty less severe. In addition, both work migration and non‐work migration decrease inequality, albeit only very slightly.     

Monopolistic third-degree price discrimination under vertical product differentiation

This paper shows in a vertical product differentiation model with variable costs of quality that monopolistic third-degree price discrimination always reduces welfare regardless of whether the quality is fixed or is endogenous. The results provide rich implications for antitrust policy.