Making livestock Policies Better Serve the Interests of Vietnam's Poor

PPLPI Policy Brief

Vietnam's economy is currently in transition from a central planning system to a market-oriented one. Nevertheless, the state still intervenes heavily into and seek to control productive activities, at the expense of private initiatives. State agents also collect huge "rents" from producers and consumers, mainly through their monopolization of trde access. Compared to crops, the livestock sector is blesses with less direct government intervention and a weak state-owned corporation. Donor intervention thus can have a larger impact as less opposition from vested intererts can be expected.