Banker to the poor
Book Review: Banker to the poor Muhammad Yunus (1998) Muhammad Yunus is a Peace Nobel Prize laureate, the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank. He chaired economics at Bangladesh’s Chittagong University. He is the person to popularize microcredit and he is the author of many books on economics, peace, and poverty reduction including Creating […]
Diverse culture – Lessons from stories
Diverse culture – Lessons from stories Hoang Cam and Nguyen Truong Giang, iSEE (2019) The book comprises of a few cultural and social practices that are often misunderstood. It provides explanations for the meaning of such practices from the point of view of the practitioners. Through 14 stories presented in chapter II of the book, […]
Country Gender Assessment of Agriculture and the Rural Sector in Vietnam
Country Gender Assessment of Agriculture and the Rural Sector in Vietnam The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2019) The Country Gender Assessment (CGA) was commissioned by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from October 2017 to February 2018 as a way to gauge Viet Nam’s progress in achieving […]
The Community Development Handbook
The Community Development Handbook Le Van An, Ngo Tung Duc, JICA (2016) The Handbook comprises 7 chapters, which give information on the terms and fundamental principles of community development, the detailed steps of working with the community, and practical notes for community development practitioners. The Handbook also provides answers to some questions rising from working […]
International Conference on Climate Change and Sustainability Management in Vietnam and Taiwan
Under the framework of the Taiwan Studies Project “Enhance Research Collaboration and Experience Sharing between the National Economics University in Vietnam and Institutions in Taiwan on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management” funded by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education via Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Vietnam, the National Economics University will organize the International […]
Top skills for global development advocacy
If you are working as a global development advocate, what are the top skills that you need to acquire so that you can successfully influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems to benefit your organizations and partners? Share4VnDev is pleased to introduce an article that lists 7 soft skills that are critical for advocacy […]
The End of Poverty
Book Review: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time Jeffrey D. Sachs (2005) Jeffrey Sachs is known as one of the world’s leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty. He has been to more than 100 countries to help solve development issues such as poverty reduction, environmental protection, or armed […]
Job opportunity in Switzerland
Position: Research Assistant in Quantitative Social Science Duration: As part of a collaboration between IOM – UN Migration Headquarters and ETH Zürich, this position is secured for at least 6 months starting in July 2020 (a possible extension of up to a year depending on performance). Working place in Zurich and/or Geneva. Read more at […]
Job opportunity in Yangon
Position: Partnership Assistant (Intern)- UNOPS, Yangon,Myanmar Duration: 6 months Education: Either currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D. course in project/program management, social/political sciences, engineering/infrastructure, business/finance, or other relevant fields, or have graduated within the past 3 years. PRINCE2 (Foundation) certification would be an asset. Experience Experience using Google Suite in particular Excel and […]
Climbing the ladder: poverty reduction and shared prosperity in Vietnam
Climbing the ladder: poverty reduction and shared prosperity in Vietnam Obert Pimhidzai, The World Bank (2018) Vietnam has achieved remarkable success in reducing poverty while controlling inequality. The country’s broad-based growth reflects the government’s focus on developing labor-intensive export sectors while investing heavily in human capital that saw the country exceed its peers (World Bank, […]
Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation: Changing Perspectives
Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation: Changing Perspectives Ray C. Rist, Frederic P. Martin, and Ana Maria Fernandez, The World Bank (2016) The basic premise of this book is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and […]
Parliaments and the SDGs: A self- assessment toolkit
Parliaments and the SDGs: A self- assessment toolkit UNDP (2018) The toolkit is designed to enable parliamentarians to identify good practices, gaps, opportunities, and lessons learned. That will equip parliamentarians to effectively institutionalize the new agenda and mainstream the various goals into the legislative process. The toolkit is not prescriptive. It has been designed to […]
Migration, Resettlement and Climate Change in Viet Nam
Migration, Resettlement and Climate Change in Viet Nam UNDP Vietnam (2014) This policy discussion paper explores the linkages between climatic changes, migration and resettlement in Viet Nam, and relevant policies. It aims to outline the main lessons on migration and resettlement in relation to climatic stresses and to recommend policy directions and key actions to […]
Reducing rural poverty in Vietnam: issues, policies, challenges
Reducing rural poverty in Vietnam: issues, policies, challenges Ngo Ha Quyen, Mekong Development Research Institute (2019) Vietnam still has about 9 million poor people living under the poverty line. This remaining group is harder to reach than the group ten or twenty years ago. They rely on agriculture, live in remote mountainous areas with very […]
Living Wage Report Rural Vietnam
Living Wage Report Rural Vietnam Research Center for Employment Relations (2017) This report estimated a living wage for rural areas of Vietnam, focusing on Soc Trang and Thai Binh and the seafood processing industry in Soc Trang, by using the new methodology developed by Anker and Anker (2017). This report has 4 sections. Section I […]
