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    Center for Development and Integration (CDI)

    The Center for Development and Integration works to promote sustainable socio-economic development, good governance towards an equitable society where poor women, girls, men and boys’ well-being
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    Public policy research and training in Vietnam

    ADB Institute, 2005
    This paper presents a report from a high-level roundtable conference on public policy issues held in Hanoi in August 2005. It aims to serve as a reference for policymakers, public policy research institutes and training institutions in Vietnam.
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    More than a pretty picture – using poverty maps to better design policies and interventions

    World Bank, 2007
    Small area estimation poverty maps help policy makers in many countries to:
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    The Individual and the Political: Promundo's Evolving Approaches in Engaging Young Men in Transforming Masculinities

    BRIDGE, 2007
    How can resistance to inequitable and/or violent forms of masculinity be promoted? Instituto Promundo - a Brazilian initiative against gender violence - focuses on promoting positive masculinities. This paper discusses the process which established the project, such as consultations with young men from a variety of contexts.
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    People and animals. Traditional livestock keepers: guardians of domestic animal diversity

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
    The present variety of farm animal species and breeds is the result of centuries of local knowledge-based selection by traditional livestock keepers. However, domestic animal diversity is being lost at an alarming rate as local livestock breeds are crossed or replaced with higher-yielding animals.
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    Determinants of remittances: recent evidence using data on internal migrants in Vietnam

    World Bank, 2008
    Migration flows in Vietnam in the past were strictly controlled by a combination of  government migration policies and the household registration system (ho khau). This paper examines the determinants of remittance behavior for Vietnam using data from the 2004 Vietnam Migration Survey on internal migrants.
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    Economic growth in Viet Nam is not shared equally by all ethnic minorities

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    There are substantial differences in living standards among Viet Nam’s 54 officially recognised ethnic groups. Most lowland Vietnamese Kinh, who make up 84 percent of the population, have benefited greatly from economic reforms initiated since the late 1980s. However, most ethnic minority groups have gained less and are being left behind.
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    Developing technologies for sustainable fisheries in Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Governments in Asia must prioritise technologies that improve fishery productivity to meet the growing local and international demand for fish. This increased productivity must be sustainable, however, and benefits need to be shared amongst people living in poverty who depend on fisheries.
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    Supermarkets and the poor in Vietnam

    Making markets work better for the poor, 2006
    The number of supermarkets in Vietnam is increasing due to government incentives, increased urbanisation and growing purchasing power. However, for price and access reasons, street vending remains the dominant retail mode. Poor consumers also often reject shopping at supermarkets because of freshness concerns. For many, supermarkets serve as pure entertainment.
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    Hidden costs: the underside of economic transformation in the Greater Mekong Subregion

    Oxfam Australia, 2007
    The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) framework, a programme for regional development by the Asian Development Bank, has brought about fast paced economic growth. However, poor people's livelihoods, culture and environment have been seriously compromised:

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