Objective: We investigate the applicability of the Big Five model in rural Southeast Asia and thereby challenge recent concerns about the validity of the model in developing countries. Method: We use a novel data set on ...

Southeast Asian countries, such as Thailand and Vietnam, have made remarkable progress in terms of economic development over the past decades. Yet, rural areas in these countries lag behind. This dissertation studies ...

Northeastern Thailand and Central Vietnam are two regions where pockets of poverty persist despite overall success in poverty reduction on the national level. While there are profound structural differences between Thailand ...

Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural income growth on macroeconomic indicators of development. Much less is known about the micro-scale changes within the farming sector that ...

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