Occupational Shifts, Poverty and Productivity in Mekong Delta

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Task List: 1. Lam Mindmap 2. Tim Data Mekong Delta 3. Tim hieu tat ca Models 4. Lam Empirical Strategy, Data, Measurement

1.1/Purpose

To Describe the Economics of Being Poor in Mekong Delta

2/Topic Questions

Does Having an income of lower than 1.25 USD a day barred the poor from moving out of Traditional Agriculture?

Does Occupational Shifts affects Poverty Reduction?

How do we enable Occupational shifts in Mekong Delta even among extremely poor people?

Discuss the Needs for Formal Established Business to give people stable jobs

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SHOULD WE ADD DEFINITIONS OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL BUSINESS ?

Data: The lack of number of people involved in formal employed business.

4/ Literature Review: Current Development in Occupational shifts

1/ Credit Constraints, Saving, and Informal Financial Institutions

The Simple of Problem of Savings of Fruit vendors in India

Model of Lending to the Poor

Data in Mekong Delta - Suggest that the poor are less likely to have access to savings, and credits in Mekong Delta

2/ The Entrepreneurship Trap

Data in Mekong Delta - Suggest the Household Business in Mekong Delta's size, investment, and business strategies, technology

Modeling The S-Shaped Curve
"THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAP"

Compare with successful business models learnt in APM college

6/ Empirical Test Strategies

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QUESTIONS: DOES HAVING AN INCOME LOWER THAN 1.25 USD A DAY BARRED THE POOR FROM MOVING OUT OF TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE

1/ DATABASE

2/ MEASUREMENTS OF SOCIAL ECONOMICS

3/ EVIDENCE STRATEGY

1/Introduction/

DEFINITIONS

PRIMARY OR SECONDARY POVERTY

SOCIAL MOBILITY AND OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY

SOCIAL POVERTY

SOCIAL WORK

Poverty and Agriculture in Mekong Delta

Why Dealing with Productivity Side of Poor People

Structure of Occupation in Mekong Delta

3/Background: Agriculture Risk Problems

Income Volatility, Consumption and The Poor

Income Volatility of Agriculture in Vietnam

The Dealton Paradox

The Problem of Selling Labor Low

"Selling Labor Low" by Jayachandran

Finding Agricultural Wages in Mekong Delta

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Modeling Poverty Trap

5/ How to enable Occupational Shifts?

1/ The Evaluation of Microfinancial Institutions

"The Miracle of Microfinance?" - By Duflo, E.

In Mekong Delta - Suggest that some MFIs' performance in Mekong Delta

2/ Analyze the provision of Stable Jobs

Demand Side

Supply Side

Legend

Data related to Mekong Delta

Poverty and Agriculture in Mekong Delta

Structure of Occupation in Mekong Delta

Income Volatility of Agriculture in Vietnam

Finding Agricultural Wages in Mekong Delta

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Data: The lack of number of people involved in formal employed business.

Data in Mekong Delta - Suggest that the poor are less likely to have access to savings, and credits in Mekong Delta

Data in Mekong Delta - Suggest the Household Business in Mekong Delta's size, investment, and business strategies, technology

In Mekong Delta - Suggest that some MFIs' performance in Mekong Delta

CURRENTLY LACKING DATABASE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SHIFT

Theory, Model, And Experiments

The Deaton Paradox

"Selling Labor Low" by Jayachandran

Model of Lending to the Poor

Modeling The S-Shaped Curve

Modeling Poverty Trap

"The Miracle of Microfinance?" - By Duflo, E.

Occupational Choices and Poverty in Mekong Delta - Introduction

Basic Steps in Poverty Reduction

Poverty in Vietnam and Mekong Delta

The importance of Human Capital

Defining Occupational Shifts

Occupational shift is a decision. For example, people decide to form a business, and so on

Occupational Choices and Poverty - Analysis

Why Poverty hinders occupational choices

Risk in low-income household production produces poverty traps and discourage savings

Saving Constraints

Low Return Business "Trap"

Study of Current Interventions for Occupational Choices

Microfinance`s evaluations

Giving out free saving accounts

Question: The effects of poverty on Occupational choices of poor people?

The importance of Human Capital

The process of poverty alleviation, which is the initial stage of development is a two-fold process. The goal of the process is to provide poor peope, now identified as people whose income is less than 1.25 dollars - an unacceptable income rate for survival, the materials so that they can escape their situations.

Natural when we think of poverty, we think of nearly humanitarian crisis where hunger and famine as well as conflict exist. However, that is not the entire story to poverty alleviation. There needs to be some schemes and better knowledge on how to provide poor people the capacity to fight back with uncertainty. As a result of this demands, study of human capital acquisition is importance. One of the most relevant human decision in this realm is the decision to shift occupations.

Purpose: exploring the microeconomics of occupational choices among poor people. We can learn the decision making behaviors of the poor and intervene effectively for poverty alleviation/