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Gender dimensions of vietnam’s comprehensive macroeconomic and structural reform policies
Packard, Le Anh Tu
Packard, Le Anh Tu
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"From a gender perspective, Vietnam is an interesting case study because it is widely seen as a “globalization” success story where historically the social and political status of women have been relatively high compared to women’s status in many other developing countries. At the same time, there is concern that their status may be eroding during the country’s rapid transition to a market economy (Asian Development Bank 2002). Thus, it is of interest to examine the relationship between gender equality and economic performance, and to assess how women have fared when macroeconomic and structural reforms are judged to have produced successful results for the society as a whole. The country’s recent reform experience is particularly instructive because it helps to identify the preconditions for women to benefit from these reforms. This paper seeks to contribute to a better understanding of macroeconomic policies that benefit women by analyzing the links between reform, gender equality, economic development, and women’s welfare as they played out in Vietnam during the 1990s, when the government carried out far-reaching and comprehensive reforms. It employs descriptive, narrative, and quantitative approaches to explain how macroeconomic and market liberalization policies, although gender neutral in intent, can give rise to gendered outcomes due to various underlying and interrelated factors, such as social attitudes and conventions influenced by patriarchal values, the pattern and structure of occupational segregation and related gender wage differentials, gender differences in education levels, labor regulations that have the effect of increasing productivity differences between men and women1, and so on."(pg 1)
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2005-02
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