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Agriculture, Small Enterprise Development and Poverty Eradication in Vietnam

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The article identifies two problem areas in relation to the otherwise impressive agricultural growth achieved by Vietnam: a marked trend towards rural differentiation and to marginalization of certain groups, and the emergence of substantial unemployment. It assesses the potential contributions of household-based rural industry and of independent small-scale enterprises, concluding that while the former makes a useful contribution to household viability it cannot provide a solution. However, important possibilities do exist for processing agricultural and livestock production in independent enterprises, based on a foundation of a more diversified and commercialized agriculture. Where the agricultural resource base is more circumscribed, as in the North, a strategy of labour-intensive manufacturing for export is called for.

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  • Ian Livingstone, 2000. "Agriculture, Small Enterprise Development and Poverty Eradication in Vietnam," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(3), pages 173-189.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjapxx:v:5:y:2000:i:3:p:173-189
    DOI: 10.1080/13547860050175008
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    1. Abdejalil AHMED, 2008. "The Extent of Farm Credit in the Libyan Agricultural Sector," EcoMod2008 23800001, EcoMod.
    2. Oostendorp, Remco H. & Trung, Tran Quoc & Tung, Nguyen Thanh, 2009. "The Changing Role of Non-Farm Household Enterprises in Vietnam," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 37(3), pages 632-644, March.
    3. Dufhues, Thomas & Buchenrieder, Gertrud, 2005. "Outreach of credit institutes and households' access constraints to formal credit in Northern Vietnam," Research in Development Economics and Policy (Discussion Paper Series) 8535, Universitaet Hohenheim, Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics.

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