International Trade, Economic Development, and the Vietnamese Economy Essays in Honor of Binh Tran-Nam

This volume spotlights some of the most important economic issues confronting today's emerging developing countries. The topics studied in the book include the importance of productivity to economic growth, international trade and its relationship to productivity; immigration and brain drain; pollution havens, climate change, and the carbon tax; the effectiveness of foreign aid, the efficiency of education, and governance. Written by some of the most respected scholars in their respective fields, the individual chapters apply both economic theory and the most current empirical tools in rigorous but accessible exposition. Researchers can find value in the modeling and empirical techniques that can be applied to other countries and datasets. Policy makers can benefit from the intellectual foundation on which decisions on important issues can be based; and students of international trade, economic development, and environmental economics can gain knowledge of different country settings that give context to their fields of study.

Chapter 1.Introduction.- Chapter 2. Efficiency-inducing tax credits for charitable donations when taxpayers have heterogeneous behavioral norms.- Chapter 3. Trade Liberalization and Profit Tax Reform Under Oligopolistic Vertical Trade.- Chapter 4. Properties of the Production Possibility Frontier of Generalized Ricardian Economy with a Pure Public Intermediate Good.- Chapter 5.A note on the internationalization strategies of SMEs.- Chapter 6.The Pollution Haven Hypothesis in a Dual Economy.- Chapter 7.Protecting Brain Drain vs. Excluding Low Quality Workers.- Chapter 8.Allocation and effectiveness of foreign aid: An overview.- Chapter 9.Smarter Teachers, Smarter Students? Some New Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 10. Social capital, income and subjective well-being in developing countries: Evidence from Vietnam.- Chapter 11.Value Added Exports and the Local Labour Market: Evidence from Vietnamese Small and Medium Manufacturing Firms.- Chapter 12. Why Does Productivity Matter?.- Chapter 13. Productivity Spillovers from Export Destinations to Domestic Firms, a Networks Analysis.- chapter 14. Lessons from East Asian Growth: Innovation Matters.