EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION ON PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOODS FROM THE ANGLE OF LIVELIHOOD VULNERABILITY: THE CASE OF THAI NGUYEN

Economics

Urbanization is an inevitable development process of Vietnam in the context of deep and broad international economic integration like nowadays. Urbanization has directly affected different aspects of life such as economic development, social issues including inequality, employment, human resource quality and migration from rural to urban areas. Therefore, it is necessary to study the livelihood vulnerability of people due to impacts of urbanization, especially for localities with a rapid urbanization like Thai Nguyen province. The DFID sustainable livelihood analysis framework (1999) was chosen as the theoretical foundation for this research. Data used for the study were collected from a survey of 168 households affected by urbanization. With these collected data, the study calculates the adaptive capacity of each group of people's resources including physical resources, human resources, financial resources, social resources and natural resources. The author will then calculate the livelihood vulnerability of the people compared to the urbanization process. The research results show that the human resources and financial resources of households have the lowest adaptive capacity index among five resources. Based on that finding, the author proposes recommendations to improve the adaptive capacity of the people in the context of urbanization in Thai Nguyen province.

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