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 […]

The UN-Sustainable Development Goals Going Local: Learning from Localising Human Rights

The UN-Sustainable Development Goals Going Local: Learning from Localising Human Rights In 2015 the United Nations declared an ambitious programme, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With similar aspirations to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the SDGs claim is to make a difference in terms of justice and sustainability on a global scale. […]

Sustainable Development Report 2019

Sustainable Development Report 2019 The Sustainable Development Report 2019 generates seven major findings: High-level political commitment to the SDGs is falling short of historic promises In September 2019, heads-of-states and governments will convene for the first time in person at the UN in New York to review progress on their promises made four years after […]

Envisioning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Through the Lens of Energy sustainability (SDG 7) in the Post-COVID-19 World

Envisioning the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Through the Lens of Energy sustainability (SDG 7) in the Post-COVID-19 World The United Nations (UN) have formulated seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and thus, humans were trying to traverse the sustainable path. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged and forced out the ephemeral conventional approaches. Thus, the […]

How can Developing countries Achieve Sustainable Development: Implications from the Inclusive Wealth Index of ASEAN Countries

How can Developing countries Achieve Sustainable Development: Implications from the Inclusive Wealth Index of ASEAN Countries Since 2015, when the United Nations (UN) established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the period 2015–2030, global attention has turned to sustainable development. However, few studies have focused on how countries can achieve sustainable development using comprehensive perspectives […]

World Development Report 2021: Data For Better lives

World Development Report 2021: Data For Better lives Today’s unprecedented growth of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the data revolution is transforming the world. And yet much of the value of data remains untapped. Data collected for one purpose have the potential to generate economic and social value in applications far beyond those originally anticipated. But many barriers stand in […]

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 – Reversals of Fortune

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 – Reversals of Fortune INTRODUCTION The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. For more than two decades, extreme poverty was steadily declining. Now, for the first time in a generation, the quest […]

Global Economics Prospects

Global Economics Prospects Although the global economy is emerging from the collapse triggered by the pandemic, the recovery is projected to be subdued. Global economic output is expected to expand 4 percent in 2021 but still remain more than 5 percent below its pre-pandemic trend. Moreover, there is a material risk that setbacks in containing […]

Mind the Gap: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities for Social Enterprise in Vietnam

Mind the Gap: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities for Social Enterprise in Vietnam Social enterprise is a maturing area of activity within the development sector, and in Vietnam the sector has expanded significantly over the last thirty years, providing social services to communities and individuals experiencing socio-economic exclusion. Initially growing in a legislative vacuum, social […]

Fragile States Index Annual Report 2020

Fragile States Index Annual Report 2020 The Fund for Peace 2020 Twenty-three percent of the world’s population live in fragile and conflict-affected states and territories (FCS), generating 2.7% global GDP (OECD 2020). FCS have made least progress in development outcomes to meet Sustainable Development Goals on hunger, health, gender equality and among others. Conflicts have […]

The Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals

The Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic for Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals Global responses to COVID-19 will impact on delivery of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, creating large uncertainties just at the time efforts need to be accelerated. This paper explores how COVID-19 could impact the success of meeting the targets with priority […]

Sustainable Development Report 2019

Sustainable Development Report 2019 Sachs, J., Schmidt-Traub, G., Kroll, C., Lafortune, G., Fuller, G; New York: Bertelsmann Stiftung and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (2019) The Sustainable Development Report 2019 generates seven major findings: 1. High-level political commitment to the SDGs is falling short of historic promises In September 2019, heads-of-states and governments will convene for […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]