Vietnam's wooden forest products industry is an important export sector, contributing to industrial growth and employment. However, it is facing increasing pressures related to challenges such as forest and export sustainability. Despite its potential, Vietnam's export performance remains uneven...

This study investigates the antecedents of nascent entrepreneurial behaviors in Vietnam, an emerging economy where entrepreneurship is a crucial growth engine. Grounded in social cognitive career theory and identity theory, we examine the relationships between entrepreneurial self-efficacy,...

2026 opened with the successful conclusion of Viet Nam’s 14th Party Congress, which reaffirmed ambitions to become a high-income country by 2045 and set an ambitious 2026-2030 reform agenda centered on supporting higher growth while safeguarding macro stability. Early-year activity was strong,...

This study applies a multiple threshold nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (MTNARDL) model to examine the asymmetric impact of real exchange rate volatility on Vietnam's exports and imports with its three leading trading partners: China, the United States, and South Korea. By allowing...

Can legal reforms shift social norms around intimate partner violence (IPV)? We examine Vietnam's 2007 Law on Domestic Violence Prevention and Control using a difference-in-differences strategy that leverages the greater relevance of legal protections for married and cohabiting women relative to...

Real GDP growth accelerated to 8 percent in 2025, supported by strong exports and higher public investment. Exports reached record levels, led by high-tech and electronics shipments to the US. However, with booming intermediate trade lifting overall imports to record highs, net exports have...

Viet Nam’s investment in its youngest generation is fundamentally an investment in the country’s future human capital. Today, over 10 million Vietnamese children under age 6 (with another one million expected in the next five years) will reach working age by 2040. This cohort is projected to...

This study investigates the impacts of geopolitical risks on corporate leverage decisions of Vietnamese listed firms from 2017 to 2024. The research findings reveal a negative impact of geopolitical risks on both corporate leverage and short-term leverage. That is, Vietnamese listed firms...

This article examines labour market transitions towards green employment in Viet Nam and their relationship to social protection. Using a task-based approach and longitudinal labour force survey data, we find that green jobs remain limited, accounting for only 15 per cent of total employment....

This article examines the impact of ownership concentration on bank profitability, with the sample of 28 Vietnamese commercial banks in the period 2009-2022. Bank profitability is assessed using both return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). The main regression methods include the least...

In an imperfect capital market, firms face financial constraints due to information asymmetry. These constraints have a significant impact on the effectiveness of investment decisions. When either an underinvestment or overinvestment process occurs, it directly affects the firm's value. This...

This study research develops and tests a theoretical extension of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) that explains behavioral intention to use ICTs for knowledge sharing. In addition, there are different impacts on knowledge donating and knowledge collecting under the influences of...

November data point to a strong but increasingly unbalanced growth. Industrial production remained robust, supported by solid export growth, while domestic demand was softer, with retail sales slowing. Inflation edged up, driven by food prices as storms and floods disrupted supply chains. Core...

Viet Nam’s health system faces persistent overcrowding in its hospitals, despite decades of reform and substantial investments. This paper examines the drivers and consequences of Viet Nam's hospital-centric health system and proposes evidence-based strategies for reform. Drawing on national...

February data showed robust industrial and trade activity continuing to drive overall growth, while domestic household spending remained more muted despite seasonal Tet support. The continued strong expansion in manufacturing was also reflected in strong intermediate goods trade and...

Recent shifts in global trade patterns have received a lot of attention, but the implications of these shifts for domestic value added in exports (DVAR) have so far been over-looked. This paper documents substantial increases in Viet Nam’s aggregate DVAR since 2018, reversing a long declining...

Research on gender gaps in firm performance often attributes lower productivity among womenled enterprises to differential access to institutions. This paper examines how interactions with formal and informal institutions relate to enterprise performance in Mozambique, Vietnam, and Myanmar. We...

While Viet Nam has been remarkably successful in poverty reduction, the country is faced with various challenges ranging from uneven pockets of poverty, regional inequality, low labour productivity, and high informality rates, to a fast-ageing society. We offer an updated overview of the social...

A business not only seeks opportunities and profits but also must help ensure a reasonable life for its employees. Only then can we develop sustainably, and applying corporate social responsibility will help businesses do better and provide and prove to customers and society that companies are...

While Vietnam has been remarkably successful in poverty reduction, the country is faced with various challenges ranging from uneven pockets of poverty, regional inequality, low labour productivity, and high informality rates, to a fast-ageing society. We offer an updated overview of the social...

Vietnam's sustained poverty reduction has coincided with rising foreign direct investment (FDI) and a major shift from income-based to multidimensional poverty measurement, raising challenges for interpreting poverty dynamics and the role of FDI across regimes. This study examines the...

This study investigates the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and bank stability in Vietnam from 2016 to 2022 using the method of moments quantile ref gression (MMQR). The results show a U-shaped relationship between CSR and bank stability at location-based and across...

This study examines how geographic distance to Vietnam's centralized securities regulator-the State Securities Commission (SSC)-influences firm-level stock price crash risk. In emerging markets characterized by weak governance, corruption, and political connections, distance can erode monitoring...

This research aimed to identify existence of a New Keynesian Phillips Curve in Vietnam. The examined period was 2012Q2 - 2025Q2, using secondary macroeconomics data and the Generalised Moments Method at 95% level of confidence. The dependent variables were price inflation and wage inflation,...

This study investigates the strategic drivers and performance outcomes of open innovation in Vietnamese manufacturing firms, with a particular focus on entrepreneurial orientation, proactive environmental strategy, and adaptive capacity. Grounded in the Natural Resource-Based View and Dynamic...

As countries in Asia and the Pacific continue to integrate into the global economy, what are the implications for women's labor market participation in these countries? The literature on international trade considers the effects of import competition and export orientation on gender gaps in...