Has the Development Gap between the Ethnic Minority and Majority Groups Narrowed in Viet Nam? Evidence from Household Surveys

Tomoki Fujii

No 661, ADBI Working Papers from Asian Development Bank Institute

Abstract: Using household data for rural northern Viet Nam between 1993 and 2014, we find that the ethnic minority group continued to lag behind the majority group in various development indicators despite the overall improvement in living standards. Our regression and decomposition analyses show that the structural differences between the two groups are an important cause of the persistent development gap. However, the nature of structural differences changed over time and no single source of structural difference explains the persistent gap. We argue that more minority-appropriate policies are needed to lift poor minority households out of poverty further and reduce the development gap.

Keywords: development gaps; ethnicity; ethnic minority; structural differences; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition; poverty decomposition; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2017-02-08
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