tailieunhanh - Income changes in association with land expropriation in Giang Điền industrial park, Đồng Nai province

Land expropriation seems inevitable during industrialization and modernization. The expropriation of land affects greatly personal income of local residents. The research employs sustainable livelihoods framework suggested by DFID (2003) to analyze effects of land expropriation on local residents in Giang Điền Industrial Park (Trảng Bom District, Đồng Nai Province). | Income Changes in Association with Land Expropriation JED January 2014| 109 Income Changes in Association with Land Expropriation in Giang Điền Industrial Park, Đồng Nai Province NGUYỄN HOÀNG BẢO University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Email: nguyenhoangbao2003@ NGUYỄN MINH TUẤN Email: truongdinhtuan_mpi@ ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received: Aug. 09, 2013 Received in revised form Oct. 4, 2013 Accepted: Dec. 31, 2013 Keywords: land expropriation, sustainable livelihood, changes in income. ABSTRACT Land expropriation seems inevitable during industrialization and modernization. The expropriation of land affects greatly personal income of local residents. The research employs sustainable livelihoods framework suggested by DFID (2003) to analyze effects of land expropriation on local residents in Giang Điền Industrial Park (Trảng Bom District, Đồng Nai Province). The results identify four following factors that affect personal income: (1) ability to turn compensation into investments; (2) area of land expropriated; (3) education level of householder; and (4) dependence ratio. 110 | Nguyễn Hoàng Bảo & Nguyễn Minh Tuấn | 109 - 126 1. INTRODUCTION According to statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (2009), there are each year approximately 73,000 hectares of expropriated agricultural land that changes the lives of million people; 70% of lawsuits in Vietnam is in connection with land expropriation, which may be evidence of people's dissatisfaction. Therefore, does personal income increase or drop with land expropriation? This is the central question of this article which is structured into the following sections: (1) Theoretical framework and research model; (2) Descriptive statistical analysis comparing factors affecting the change in income; and (3) Binary Logit Regression model and policy implications. 2. CHANGES IN INCOME AND RESEARCH MODELS There exist many studies of income change due to .