Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam
This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of rural-urban migration in Vietnam. It addresses a wide range of important topics, including Vietnam’s household registration system (ho khau), migration trends, remittance behaviour and social network
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Amy Y. C. Liu Xin Meng Editors
Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam
Population Economics
Editor-in-Chief Klaus F. Zimmermann UNU-MERIT Maastricht, The Netherlands Maastricht University The Netherlands
Managing Editor Michaella Vanore Maastricht University Maastricht Graduate School of Governance/UNU-MERIT Maastricht, The Netherlands Series Editors Alessandro Cigno University of Florence Florence, Italy Oded Galor Brown University Providence, RI, USA Junsen Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/2190
Amy Y. C. Liu • Xin Meng Editors
Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam
Editors Amy Y. C. Liu International and Development Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National University Canberra, ACT, Australia
Xin Meng College of Business & Economics Australian National University Canberra, ACT, Australia
ISSN 1431-6978 Population Economics ISBN 978-3-319-94573-6 ISBN 978-3-319-94574-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94574-3
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Preface
Following the remarkable economic growth in the past few decades, Vietnam has experienced rapid urbanisation. In 1986, Vietnam had fewer than 13 million urban residents. From 2000 to 2010, its urban population increased by about 8 million, representing an annual growth rate of over 4%. This was one of the fastest growth rates recorded in East Asia (World Bank 2015).1 By 2014, Vietnam’s urban population had already reached 30 million—more than double its low base in 1986 (see chapter “Rural–Urban Migration in Vietnam: Trend and Institutions”). Urban expansion in Vietnam is
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