Author: Dang Thu Phuong
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-01-07
Year: 2001
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2001
Examination Committee: B.W.E. Wickramanayake (Chairperson); Soparth Pongquan, A.T.M. Nurul Amin (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Presently, while Vietnam enjoys a period of rapid development and growth, it also faces major social and economic structural challenges. Those challenges include how to stop a widening gap between rural and urban incomes how to absorb a growing rural population into a shrinking rural labour market how to stem rural-urban migration how to most effectively use Vietnam’s main comparative advantage – its labour force – in the process of national development. At the same time, researchers and development policy-makers worldwide are paying increasing attention to the study of the rural non-farm sector. They hope that within the rural non-farm sector might lie some of the answers to the challenges that face rapidly growing transitional rural economies like Vietnam. This study is a contribution to the increasing attention to the rural non-farm sector in the international and Vietnamese context. It takes as its subject ‘rural household enterprises’, not medium enterprises or small enterprises, but enterprises at the lowest, household level. These are the enterprises that might be multiplied most quickly, and might be most easily controlled by the poorest people themselves. This might be the sector that can provide the best solutions to some of the most pressing regional and rural development challenges in Vietnam today. The study examines the factors that influence the access of rural people to the household enterprise sector, using a relatively remote commune in Thai Nguyen Province as the study area. The objectives are to identify internal and external factors, which facilitate or hinder entry into the sector. The study considers the factors as they effect sub-groups of would-be entrepreneurs at different stages of their life-cycle – single, newly-married group, married group from aged 27-40, married group from 41-54, and elderly group aged 55 and above. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are applied in order to reach the most accurate interpretation of the outcomes of the research work. Significant
Scholarship Donor(s): Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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