Anthropology in International Development

The aim of this study is to analyze empirically the impact of taxation and corruption on the growth of manufacturing firms in Vietnam. The study employed pooled OLS estimation and then instrument variables with fixed effect for the panel data of 1377 firms in Vietnam from 2005 to 2011. These data were obtained from the survey of the Central Institute for Economic Management and the Danish International Development Agency. The results show that both taxation and corruption are negatively associated with firm growth measured by firm sales adjusted according to the GDP deflator. A one-percentage point increase in the bribery rate is linked with a reduction of 16,883 percentage points in firm revenue, over four and a half times bigger than the effect of a one-percentage point increase in the tax rate. From the findings of this research, the author recommends the Vietnam government to lessen taxation on firms and that there should be an urgent revolution in anti-corruption policies as well as bureaucratic improvement in Vietnam.

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Capitalising upon Globalisation

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423564.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

David M. Webber

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

International Development ◽

Macroeconomic Policy ◽

Domestic Policy ◽

Policy Decisions ◽

Gordon Brown ◽

Development Policies ◽

At Home

Having mapped out in the previous chapter, New Labour’s often contradictory and even ‘politically-convenient’ understanding of globalisation, chapter 3 offers analysis of three key areas of domestic policy that Gordon Brown would later transpose to the realm of international development: (i) macroeconomic policy, (ii) business, and (iii) welfare. Since, according to Brown at least, globalisation had resulted in a blurring of the previously distinct spheres of domestic and foreign policy, it made sense for those strategies and policy decisions designed for consumption at home to be transposed abroad. The focus of this chapter is the design of these three areas of domestic policy; the unmistakeable imprint of Brown in these areas and their place in building of New Labour’s political economy. Strikingly, Brown’s hand in these policies and the themes that underpinned them would again reappear in the international development policies explored in much greater detail later in the book.

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An Exploratory Study of Social Work Practice for International Development Assistance - A case study of Kopino Chidren's Association -

Journal of community welfare ◽

10.15300/jcw.2013.09.46.135 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Hee Joo Kim

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

International Development ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Development Assistance ◽

Work Practice ◽

Social Work Practice

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Religious Dimension in Development Studies

Bulletin for the Study of Religion ◽

10.1558/bsor.v40i1.005 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 44-51

Author(s):

Nathan Loewen

Keyword(s):

International Development ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Development Studies ◽

Religious Dimension ◽

Religious Dimensions

Religion, spirituality and faith are themes gaining interest and prominence in the field of development studies. This “religious turn in development” (Pearson and Tomalin 2008, 49) has gone largely unnoticed by religious studies scholars. The range of current publications on the topic is not produced by self-identified religion scholars. I wish to give an overview of this nascent topic for study in order to suggest how the acumen of religious studies scholars might engage it. I will first make some remarks about the field of international development in order to locate challenges within the ‘religious turn’ within the current IDS discourse. I wish to conclude with some proposals for studying the religious dimensions of international development.

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