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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
