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    Institutions and private sector development in Vietnam

    The East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, 2007
    Vietnam's macroeconomic success has largely been driven by the expansion of the private sector and thus by the micro level. Microeconomic foundations of strong macroeconomic performance included formal recognition of private property rights, the right of doing business and competition laws.
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    Trade liberalisation and intra-household poverty in Vietnam: a Q2 social impact analysis

    Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2007
    This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation and WTO accession on child poverty in Vietnam. Trade increases wealth, but has varying impact on different members of a household. It affects child well-being and thus human capital formation and future development. The authors identify pathways through which trade liberalisation is linked to child well-being:
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    Committed to caring: older women and HIV & AIDS in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam

    HelpAge International, 2007
    In numerous Asian countries, many older people assume multiple responsibilities in caring for relatives living with HIV/AIDS. Despite their burden, older carers remain neglected within the response to HIV and AIDS in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. In this paper, the author outlines a number of recommendations for every level of response. These include:
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    Is the Ethical Trading Initiative improving labour standards?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is an alliance of companies, trade union and non-government organisations committed to improving working conditions in global supply chains. ETI members commit to require their suppliers to comply with the ETI Base Code: a voluntary code of labour practice developed in 1998. Has ETI improved worker’s lives?
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    Farming fish in cities – an undervalued activity?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Cultivating fish and aquatic vegetables is a common activity in many Asian cities. In fast-changing urban environments, what are the risks and benefits of this?
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    Making agriculture work for the poor

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2007
    This paper looks at the links between poverty, agriculture and land, reporting on panel data analysis in five countries – Vietnam, Uganda, India, Nicaragua and Ethiopia. It suggests that three ‘pillars’ can help to make agriculture work for the rural poor – infrastructure, education and information. Policy conclusions are:
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    Vietnam gender assessment 2006

    World Bank Publications, 2006
    Vietnam has one of the highest rates of economic participation of women in the world as well as the highest participation of women in parliament in the Asia Pacific Region; however, while progress has been made, almost half of the targets in the second Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women (2001-2005) were not met.
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    Interrelationship between growth, inequality, and poverty: the Asian experience

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    This paper examines the relationships between economic growth, income distribution, and poverty for 17 Asian countries for the period 1981–2001. The author uses an inequality–growth trade-off index (IGTI) to analyse the trade-off between inequality and growth. A poverty equivalent growth rate is also employed to study the distributional impact of growth.
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    Link between spirit forest and biodiversity conservation: case study at Son la province

    Research Center for Forest Ecology and Environment, Vietnam, 2007
    This study examines spirit forest in two communities in Son la province, Vietnam.  Using a participatory approach, it analyses traditional regulation, local knowledge on spirit forest and community forest protection. Standard vegetation measurements were also carried out in several spirit forests in Son la province.
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    Vietnam: increasing access to credit through collateral (secured transactions) reform

    World Bank, 2007
    This report analyses Vietnam's secured transactions framework and the decade-long reform efforts within the context of global best practices. It is based mainly on the financial sector survey, a series of individual and focus group meetings in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city, analysis of the Vietnamese laws, and international best-practice reviews.

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