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 […]
Monitoring Global Poverty : Report of the Commission on Global Poverty
Monitoring Global Poverty: Report of the Commission on Global Poverty Tony Atkinson, The World Bank (2017) In 2013, the World Bank Group announced two goals that would guide its operations worldwide. The first is the eradication of chronic extreme poverty – bringing the number of extremely poor people, defined as those living on less than […]
Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion
Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion Maria Petmesidou, Enrique Delamónica, Christos Papatheodorou, Aldrie Henry-Lee, CROP International Poverty Studies (2016) Worldwide child and youth poverty remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing […]
Entrepreneurial universities and the development model for public universities in Vietnam
Entrepreneurial universities and the development model for public universities in Vietnam Dinh Van ToanAllied Business Academies (2020) This article summarizes and clarifies the theoretical and practical characteristics and elements of entrepreneurial universities. Based on the results of a survey administered to universities and in-depth interviews with administrators and lecturers in management roles at four public […]
Impacts of wildlife trade and sustainable development in Vietnam
Impacts of wildlife trade and sustainable development in Vietnam Duc Hanh Nguyen and Thi Mai Dinh, EDP Sciences (2020) This article focuses on the challenges of prosecution and crimes relating to wildlife trade in Viet Nam. It also provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of wildlife trade and criminal status relating to wildlife […]
School Climate – A Quantitative Study of Middle School Students in Vietnam
School Climate – A Quantitative Study of Middle School Students in Vietnam Thu Huong Tran, Thanh Hue Ngo, Hanh Lien Nguyen, Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (2019) This study aimed to understand the general perception of the term ‘school climate’ as well as its specific dimensions using Randolph, Kangas & Ruokamo’s (2009) […]
Risks and rewards – Outcomes of labor migration in South-East Asia
Risks and rewards – Outcomes of labor migration in South-East Asia Benjamin Harkins, Daniel Lindgren, Tarinee Suravoranon, International Labor Organization (2018) During the last two decades, labor migration has emerged as a significant driver of economic growth and development in both countries of origin and destination within ASEAN. It is estimated that there are currently […]
World Migration Report 2015 Migrants and cities: new partnerships to manage mobility.
World Migration Report 2015 Migrants and cities: new partnerships to manage mobility. June J.H. Lee, Jill Helke, Frank Laczko, International Organization for Migration (2015) The report focuses on migrants and how migration is shaping cities and the situation of migrants in cities. While much of the current international discussion about migration trends and migration policy […]
The Limits of Accounting-Based Accountability in Education
The Limits of Accounting-Based Accountability in Education Dan Honig và Lant Pritchett, Center for Global Development (2019) Accountability is rightly at the center of the conversation regarding how to improve governance systems, particularly health and education systems. But efforts to address accountability deficits often focus primarily on improving what can be counted and verified-what we […]
How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index
How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index Sabina Alkire, Adriana Conconi, Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio, and Ana Vaz, United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford (2019) This joint handbook by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, provides practical […]
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 José Cuesta, Mario Negre, The World Bank (2016) Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 is the first of an annual flagship report that will inform a global audience comprising development practitioners, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and citizens in general with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and […]
The Gender Wealth Gap by Household Head in Vietnam
The Gender Wealth Gap by Household Head in Vietnam Duc Hong Vo; Phuong Doan Ho; Chi Minh Ho; Michael McAleer, Advances in Decision Sciences, Asia University, Taiwan (2019) While the gender income gap has been examined extensively, the gender wealth gap has largely been ignored, especially for emerging markets such as Vietnam. The lack of […]
Social Innovation and Social Policy – Empowerment of indigenous women the management of sustainable productive organizations in Vietnam and Mexico
Social Innovation and Social Policy – Empowerment of indigenous women the management of sustainable productive organizations in Vietnam and Mexico Medel-Ramírez, Carlos and Medel-López, Hilario, IIESES Universidad Veracruzana, Instituto de Antropología, Universidad Veracruzana (2019) The present proposal, as an area of opportunity, addresses the empowerment of indigenous women, as a mechanism that seeks to achieve […]
