Inequality of living standard in Vietnam rural areas through using agrarian land of households

Abstract

The article generally presents some results of ministerial project (2015-2016) on “Inequality of living standard in Vietnam rural areas through using and managing lands today”under the direction of author and the administration of Institute for Sociology, studying the influences of agrarian land resources on living standard of people in 20 years (1992-2012), based on the analysis and deeply treating data of 8 investigations on living standard of representative populations of entire country, realized by General Statistics Office from 1992 to 2012. Study results showed that, increased inequality in Vietnam manifested in social polarization, in which a pole represents wealthy group with highest living standard, another is the rest (among which poor household group has lowest living standard). The process of concentration of agrarian lands (including cultivation lands, forestlands, aquatic lands, salt-industry lands..., among which cultivation lands have the primary place) is deploying relatively slow in Vietnam rural ereas. In the period of 20 years from 1992 to 2012, factor of agrarian lands also had impact on reduction of poor households and on increase of wealthy households, and enhanced living standard of rural households, but not as much as other foctors.