Author: Bao Nguyen

Bao Nguyen is a junior researcher. He studied International Economics at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam. He became interested in the issues of development and poverty as he lived in a poor village. In 2020, he entered the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Sejong, Korea, to pursue a master’s in development policy. Poverty reduction and inclusive education have been his focus of research.

Migration and Poverty: Toward Better Opportunities for the Poor

Migration and Poverty: Toward Better Opportunities for the Poor Murrugarra, Edmundo; Larrison, Jennica; Sasin, Marcin, The World Bank (2011) Migration has historically been a source of opportunities for people to improve their lives and those of their families. Today, the large differences in income between places-particularly countries-continue to motivate individuals to escape poverty through migration. […]

2019 Vietnam Youth Integrity Survey

2019 Vietnam Youth Integrity Survey Vu Ngoc Anh, Christian Levon, Nguyen Thi Kieu Vien, Towards Transparency (2019) Corruption remains a serious problem in Vietnam despite continued efforts and strong determination of the Communist Party and the government of Vietnam to eradicate corruption. A noticeable corruption effect seen worldwide is the public loss of trust in […]

Transformation towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies in Asia and the Pacific

Transformation towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies in Asia and the Pacific Asian Development Bank (2018) This report explores how resilience thinking can strengthen public policy to enable the transformation towards sustainable societies envisaged by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific region. The report takes stock of the changing nature of risk in Asia and […]

Impact Evaluation in Practice

Impact Evaluation in Practice Gertler, Paul J.; Martinez, Sebastian; Premand, Patrick; Rawlings, Laura B.; Vermeersch, Christel M. J, The World Bank (2016) The second edition of the Impact Evaluation in Practice handbook is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to impact evaluation for policy makers and development practitioners. First published in 2011, it has been used […]

Inflation in Emerging and Developing Economies : Evolution, Drivers and Policies

Inflation in Emerging and Developing Economies: Evolution, Drivers and Policies Ha, Jongrim Kose, M. Ayhan Ohnsorge, Franziska, The World Bank (2019) Emerging market and developing economies, like advanced economies, have experienced a remarkable decline in inflation over the past half-century. Yet, research into this development has focused almost exclusively on advanced economies. This book fills […]

Shock Waves : Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty

Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives […]

Poverty in a Rising Africa

Poverty in a Rising Africa Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines, and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on “Africa rising” and an “African 21st century.” Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements in well-being. Whether or […]

Negotiating gender equity in the Global South: The politics of domestic violence policy

Negotiating gender equity in the Global South: The politics of domestic violence policy Sohela Nazneen, Sam Hickey, Eleni Sifaki, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (2019) The fact that women have achieved higher levels of political inclusion within low- and middle-income countries has generated much speculation about whether this is reaping broader benefits in tackling gender-based […]

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO (2020) This joint report is issued annually by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNICEF, the World Food Programme, and the World Health Organization. It presents the latest estimates […]

Asia-Africa Development Divergence: A Question of Intent

David Henley. (2015). Asia-Africa Development Divergence: A Question of Intent. Zed Books After gaining freedom from colonial rule in the 1960s, Southeast Asian countries were even poorer than sub-Saharan African countries. However, within nearly 50 years Southeast Asian countries have succeeded sub-Saharan Africa in socio-political and economic aspects, achieving the goals of poverty reduction, health, […]

Factors Affecting the Bank Credit Accessibility of Rural Households in Vietnam

Factors Affecting the Bank Credit Accessibility of Rural Households in Vietnam Tran Long Giang, Hoang Thi Thanh Hang, Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research (2019) The research identifies and measures factors affecting bank credit accessibility using Heckman (1979). The research uses data from the dataset of Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2014 and 2016 […]

Understanding Growth and Poverty: Theory, Policy, and Empirics

Understanding Growth and Poverty: Theory, Policy, and Empirics Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith, The World Bank (2011) This volume is an introduction to the theories and policies that affect economic growth and poverty. It is a compilation of lecture notes used in face-to-face and e-learning courses presented by the World Bank Institute’s (WBI) Poverty Program […]