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  • Vietnam's Responses to Provincial Economic Disparities Through Central-Provincial Government Financial Relations

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    Author(s)
    Vu, Xuan-Binh
    Duc-Tho, Nguyen
    Smith, Christine
    Nghiem, Hong-Son
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    Smith, Christine A.
    Year published
    2015
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    The paper examines key changes in central-provincial government financial arrangements and their effects on provincial economic disparities in Vietnam over the period 2000-2008. We find that after 2004, transfers from the central to provincial governments conformed much more closely to objective and pre-determined criteria than before. Econometric estimations indicate that in the post-2004 sub-period, poorer provinces obtained more-than-proportionate assistance from the central government, and the favourable treatment was statistically significant. Responses from interviews and statistical data suggest that transfers from ...
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    The paper examines key changes in central-provincial government financial arrangements and their effects on provincial economic disparities in Vietnam over the period 2000-2008. We find that after 2004, transfers from the central to provincial governments conformed much more closely to objective and pre-determined criteria than before. Econometric estimations indicate that in the post-2004 sub-period, poorer provinces obtained more-than-proportionate assistance from the central government, and the favourable treatment was statistically significant. Responses from interviews and statistical data suggest that transfers from the central government played an important role in reducing poverty and provincial output disparities after 2004. The difficulties experienced by the central government in securing adequate resources to finance such transfers, the over-reliance of some provinces on the transfers, and related policy implications are also discussed in the paper.
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    Journal Title
    Australasian Journal of Regional Studies
    Volume
    21
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://www.anzrsai.org/publications/ajrs/2015-Volume-21/Issue-1/
    Copyright Statement
    © 2016 ANZRSAI. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
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    Applied economics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/339793
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