Equitable, Quality Education for Ethnic Minority Students? A Case of “Positive Deviance” in Vietnam
Equitable, Quality Education for Ethnic Minority Students? A Case of “Positive Deviance” in Vietnam Vietnam has achieved near-universal access to compulsory schooling over the past two decades. However, inequalities between ethnic majority and minority students are stark at post-compulsory levels, where progression is selective based on academic criteria and ability to pay. In this article, […]
The Government Supporting Policy for Sustainable Development of Small and Medium Industrial Enterprises in Vietnam
The Government Supporting Policy for Sustainable Development of Small and Medium Industrial Enterprises in Vietnam In recent years, the issues of sustainable development in general and enterprise’s sustainable development have always been given special attention by government management agency, including small and mediumsize industrial enterprises. The study conducted a survey of 316 industrial SMEs in […]
Citizens’ Opinions and Experiences with Government Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic in Viet Nam
Citizens’ Opinions and Experiences with Government Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic in Viet Nam The working paper “Citizens’ Opinions and Experiences with Government Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic in Viet Nam” was conducted by the Mekong Development Research Institute (MDRI) and UNDP in the last quarter of 2020. It aims to understand how the Vietnamese citizens have perceived and experienced the measures to […]
Assessment of the COVID-19 Socio-Economic Impact on Vulnerable Households and Household Businesses in Viet Nam
Assessment of the COVID-19 Socio-Economic Impact on Vulnerable Households and Household Businesses in Viet Nam The report findings highlight that: (i) Since April 2020, as a result of the pandemic, the employment of 63% surveyed households were affected (family members were laid off, had a temporary break from work, suffered from reduced working hours, and […]
AI Technologies for Education: Recent Research & Future Directions
AI Technologies for Education: Recent Research & Future Directions From unique educational perspectives, this article reports a comprehensive review of selected empirical studies on artificial intelligence in education (AIEd) published in 1993–2020, as collected in the Web of Sciences database and selected AIEd-specialized journals. A total of 40 empirical studies met all selection criteria, and […]
The Post-Pandemic Challenge: Development of Transnational Education Programme in Vietnam
The Post-Pandemic Challenge: Development of Transnational Education Programme in Vietnam The world is facing a severe pandemic that has made millions of students who are experiencing depression and anxiety with their study abroad search for alternatives. One possible solution lies in transnational education programmes that provide high-quality education for students who would like to receive […]
A guidebook on Mapping Poverty through Data integration and Artificial intelligence
A guidebook on mapping poverty through data integration and artificial intelligence In 2017, The Asian Development Bank (ADB) dispatched the information support technical assistance project called Data for Development that aims to strengthen the capacity of national statistics offices to meet the increasing data demands for policymaking and monitoring of development goals and targets. One […]
An Exploratory Study on the Emergency Remote Education Experience of Higher Education Students and Teachers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
An Exploratory Study on the Emergency Remote Education Experience of Higher Education Students and Teachers During the COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic situation has pushed many higher education institutions into a fast-paced, and mostly unstructured, emergency remote education process. In such an unprecedented context, it is important to understand how technology is mediating the educational […]
Transnational Experience and High-performing Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Vietnam
Transnational Experience and High-performing Entrepreneurs in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Vietnam Do high-performing entrepreneurs in the technology sector in emerging economies have more, or different, transnational experience than the founders of high-performing non-technology businesses? Employing Vietnam as a case study, we find that they do; the founders of high-performing technology-oriented businesses are 15 times more […]
Learning Inequities in Vietnam: Teachers’ Beliefs about and Classroom Practices for Ethnic Minorities
Learning Inequities in Vietnam: Teachers’ Beliefs about and Classroom Practices for Ethnic Minorities Global and national education agendas are concerned with improving quality and equality of learning outcomes. This paper provides an analysis of the case of Vietnam, which is regarded as having high learning outcomes and less inequity in learning. But national data and […]
Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Reduction in Selected ASEAN Member Countries
Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Reduction in Selected ASEAN Member Countries Examining the impact of revenues from the tourism sector on poverty reduction in selected members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, is the primary objective of this study. The Bayesian Structural Time Series (BSTS) model and the regression […]
An Investment Perspective on Global Value Chains
An Investment Perspective on Global Value Chains This book examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in global value chains (GVCs). To stimulate economic transformation through GVCs, policy makers in developing countries need to better understand the business strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs), internationalization pathways for domestic firms, and how policies can create a […]
A Guidebook on Mapping Poverty through Data Integration and Artificial Intelligence
A Guidebook on Mapping Poverty through Data Integration and Artificial Intelligence In 2017, The Asian Development Bank (ADB) dispatched the information support technical assistance project called Data for Development that aims to strengthen the capacity of national statistics offices to meet the increasing data demands for policymaking and monitoring of development goals and targets. One […]
Experience in Poverty Reduction in the World and Lesson for Vietnam
Experience in Poverty Reduction in the World and Lesson for Vietnam Vietnam is a country that is considered to have certain successes in poverty reduction. However, poverty is still very concerned and is always one of the hot issues of society. Through the study of documents, this article aims to learn about effective poverty reduction […]
The Effect of Information Source on Higher Education Students’ Sustainability Knowledge
The Effect of Information Source on Higher Education Students’ Sustainability Knowledge When it comes to what higher education students know about sustainability, where they learn matters. In this study, we explore the extent to which students’ level of sustainability knowledge differed according to where they previously learned about the environment. In an online survey administered […]
