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    Understanding market-based livelihoods in a globalising world: combining approaches and methods

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005
    What happens when livelihoods analysis and value chain analysis are used in combination? How can research on livelihoods and markets produce policy-oriented information? This IIED paper argues that developing policies to enhance people’s livelihoods through market access requires understanding both livelihoods assets and strategies, and the nature of markets for particular goods.
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    Sustainable livelihood opportunities and resource management in coastline communes facing special difficulties

    Overseas Development Institute, 2004
    What are the livelihoods and poverty issues facing coastline communes in Vietnam? How can poverty alleviation programmes best respond to them? This publication reports on research carried out for the Government of Vietnam to inform a new national programme supporting infrastructure development in coastal areas exposed to harsh conditions.
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    Winners of globalisation

    Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 2008
    Picking up on the positive and negative economic impacts of globalisation, this paper focuses on the welfare-enhancing and dislocating aspects of the phenomenon. It examines the evidence for its beneficial effect on several country groups as well as over the global economy.
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    Accountability and inequality in single-party regimes: a comparative analysis of Vietnam and China

    The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2008
    This article describes variation in authoritarian institutions by investigating the puzzle of divergent patterns of inequality in China and Vietnam, both high-growth single-party regimes. China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately.
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    Local democracy in Asia: representation in decentralized governance – concepts and issues

    United Nations Development Programme, 2006
    This Background Paper is part of a wider UNDP regional initiative that focuses on a number of core issues related to representative systems and local elections. It includes a detailed review of the systems in place in eight countries in South/West Asia, five countries in Southeast Asia and three Pacific region countries.
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    Urbanization and rural development in Vietnam's Mekong Delta: livelihood transformations in three fruit-growing settlements

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This article discusses the reasons and implications of the decline in poverty rate among fruit farmers in the rural Mekong Delta, as compared to all other rural households in the region and in Vietnam. This decline happened despite huge fluctuations in export markets for fruit in the last decade.
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    Social issues under economic transformation and integration in Vietnam, Volume 2

    Vietnam Development Forum, 2008
    This is the second of two volumes looking at social issues in transition economies in reference to Vietnam.
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    Social issues under economic transformation and integration in Vietnam, Volume 1

    Vietnam Development Forum, 2008
    Fast growth and integration has intensified social problems in Vietnam. New problems have also arisen. Rapidly urbanising areas are experiencing issues with street children, prostitution, and HIV/AIDS epidemic transmission. Nationally there are problems in the education system and social welfare, rising inequality, and in elderly populations.
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    Making agriculture work for poor people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Agriculture still plays a vital role in reducing poverty in most developing countries. But which factors are important for ensuring that agricultural growth helps people to escape from poverty? And what role does land tenure play in this relationship?
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    Poverty, inequality and ethnic minorities in Viet Nam

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The issue of poverty in Viet Nam cannot be addressed without comparing poverty levels among ethnic groups. Policymakers need to understand how ethnic minorities are disadvantaged. Government policies must seek not only to improve ethnic minority access to such endowments as land and education but also to address the disparities in the returns to these endowments among these groups.

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