Are returns to investment lower for the poor? : human and physical capital interactions in rural Vietnam

If the marginal gains from investment in physical capital depend positively on knowledge, but a household cannot hire skilled labor to compensate for low skills, then even if it has access to credit, the household will achieve lower returns than an educated household. If, as is common, the income-po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van de Walle, Dominique
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 2000
Series:Policy research working paper no. 2425
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