markets, Vietnam is coming to play an important role in this global industry. The recent influx of foreign investors, driven … building. This paper situates Vietnam in the global information and communications technology industry, and identifies several …. The paper concludes with a set of policy recommendations and forward-looking statements aimed at helping Vietnam move into …

in Vietnam shows that the main determinant of the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030 is the income of unskilled … significant impact on poverty in Vietnam in about a quarter of the scenarios, with 400,000 to more than a million people living in …

With 70 percent of its population living in coastal areas and low-lying deltas, Vietnam is exposed to many natural …, while the main strategy in Vietnam today to manage flood risk is to reduce exposure, the increase in exposure estimated in …

of the latest Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2010, 2012, and 2014 and gridded weather data from the Climate … wages remain important income sources in rural Vietnam—especially for poorer households; (ii) rural communes are exposed to …

This study combines high-resolution, geo-spatial data and household data from the Vietnam Living Standard Measurement … suggest that Vietnam’s poor are disproportionally exposed to environmental risks, which can result in livelihood impacts that …

This paper seeks to find an empirical explanation of Vietnam's outstanding performance on the Programme for … the unique exception of Vietnam, are typically clustered at the lower end of the range of the Programme for International … student Assessment scores. The paper compares Vietnam's performance with that of a set of seven developing countries from the …

United States, and Vietnam for the mid-to-late 2000s. Estimation results comparing the two approaches with measuring the … evolution of shared prosperity are qualitatively consistent, and suggest that during this period, Vietnam enjoyed the greatest …

This study looks at the contribution of the university system in Vietnam to the socioeconomic development in general … south of Vietnam. The findings show that the role of Vietnamese universities in research is much weaker than teaching, and … in Vietnam and its shift in behavior in the context of economic renovation and globalization. …