Search

Reset

Searching in Vietnam

Showing 221-230 of 700 results

Pages

  • Document

    Rethinking investments in natural resources: China’s emerging role in the Mekong region

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2008
    China is establishing itself as an economic powerhouse around the world. China’s economic demand for a reliable supply of inexpensive natural resources have led to a rapid increase in Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) stretching the way to Mekong region. This policy brief aims to shed some light on China’s economic role in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
  • Document

    Pensions at a glance: Asia/pacific edition

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009
    Asia's pension systems need modernising urgently to ensure that they are financially sustainable and will provide adequate retirement incomes.  A core concern of this study is the social sustainability of pensions - the future adequacy of pension benefits, the impact of pension reforms on the distribution of income among older people, and ways of combating old-age poverty.
  • Document

    World Bank policies won’t get women justice or reduce poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Inequality between men and women makes poverty worse. The World Bank’s poverty reduction strategy is unlikely to bring justice for women or reduce poverty because its economic policies contradict its social policies. It will only be able reduce poverty if it makes justice the priority of development not economic growth.
  • Document

    A fair share? Experiences in benefit sharing from community managed resources in Asia

    Regional Community Forestry Training Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
    This book attempts to answer the question of whether the benefits of Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) initiatives will be sufficient to raise rural people out of poverty, and provide them with sufficient incentive to sustainably manage their resources.
  • Document

    Child mortality and injury in Asia

    UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2007
    This special Innocenti series on Child Injury, developed jointly by UNICEF and TASC, presents recently acquired evidence from surveys in five Asian countries: Bangladesh, China, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. The surveys are large in scale, similar to a census. In total over half a million households and nearly 2.5 million people were surveyed.
  • Document

    Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.
  • Document

    Inequality in mortality in Vietnam: unravel the causes

    Department of Economics, Umeå University, 2008
    This study investigates the association between socio-economic variables and mortality in Vietnam.
  • Document

    Labour conditions in IKEA's supply chain - case studies in Bangladesh and Vietnam

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2006
    This paper presents the findings of a study on the working conditions in IKEA’s suppliers in Bangladesh and Vietnam. It assesses the working conditions in the factories by comparing them with the standards as prescribed in IKEA’s code of conduct for supplier companies. The study covers seven factories – four in Bangladesh and three in Vietnam.
  • Document

    Sustainability issues in the tea sector - a comparative analysis of six leading producing countries

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2008
    This report presents a detailed and comparative analysis on social, economic and ecological conditions in the tea sector in six of the most important tea-producing countries: India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya and Malawi. It also presents an overview of trade, production and stakeholders in international tea supply chains. The main findings include:
  • Document

    Future scenarios as a tool for collaboration in forest communities

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2008
    This paper discusses how a participatory method to facilitate thinking about future scenarios can help change the way forest communities and local governments interact. It reviews a growing body of literature on future scenarios and shares first-hand experiences in forest communities in the northern Bolivian Amazon and the central provinces of Vietnam.

Pages