Landlords are taking back the land: the agrarian transition in Vietnam

land ownership;Viet Nam;access to land;landowners

Vietnam's agriculture: is there an inverse relationship?

Viet Nam;access to land;agricultural change;agricultural productivity;choice of technology;farm size

A crouching tiger? A hidden dragon? Transition, savings and growth in Vietnam, 1975-2006

econometric models;Viet Nam;policy analysis;economic development;economies in transition

Does paradise have a future? : a three-gap analysis of the Fiji economy

econometric models;economic growth;Fiji;external financing;financial needs;macroeconomcis

Vietnam's agriculture: is there an inverse relationship?

This paper asks whether there is an inverse relationship between size of farm and output per unit of land in rural Vietnam. Evidence indicates that access to land has become increasingly stratified, and that changes in the choice of technique have also occurred. It is demonstrated that agrarian production and productivity have been unleashed as a result of these changes. Decomposing the sources of accumulation, it is demonstrated that purchased machinery and equipment are an important source of growth. Evidence from the Mekong Delta indicates that farms of different sizes appear to utilize different technical coefficients of production, and that these differences in production systems appear to have an effect on yields. As a consequence, an inverse relationship between size of farm and output per unit of land cannot be substantiated

Landlords are taking back the land: the agrarian transition in Vietnam

This article applies the concepts associated with agrarian political economy to recent Vietnamese economic development. Differences in access to land that underpin transformation in rural relations of production are documented. Differences in the technical coefficients of production are also demonstrated amongst farms when grouped on the basis of size of land. The impact of these changes is demonstrated to be an impressive supply response, which suggests that dynamic productive efficiency gains have been fostered as a result of rural restructuring. Differences in the extent to which farm households, when grouped on the basis of expenditure quintiles, are integrated into markets, when considered alongside differential agrarian productivity, suggests that the benefits of rural restructuring are being inequitably distributed. Cumulatively, processes of peasant class differentiation appear to be underway in rural Vietnam

We earn only for you' : structural adjustment and rural markets in Northern Pakistan

impact assessment;Pakistan;agricultural products;market;structural adjustment