Land administration for poverty reduction in Vietnam
Vo, Dang Hung and Tran Nhu Trung
A common feature of all developing countries is that they all seem to set off as agricultural nations with a distributed production background, a backward rural society, and most of farmers being poor. Economic development supported by industrialisation has given way to changes in the investment structure, land use pattern, and labour composition to provide room for industrial and urban zones for industrial and service growth. Modernisation of agricultural production and the change in the land use pattern always requires a good land administration system to ensure the rural areas, which are normally associated with poverty, be able to reduce it and to narrow the rural urban poverty gap. Hunger elimination and poverty reduction is critical to ensure sustainability in development. This article is to provide analysis of various aspects of the land administration system of Vietnam since DOI MOI (Reform) until now when the process of industrialisation and modernisation is being launched. The analysis will offer a vision of the direct impacts from the administration system on hunger elimination and poverty reduction, and an insight into the system's disadvantages that have contributed to corruption during the cause of hunger elimination and poverty reduction in the development process.
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