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    Ownership in practice (Paris, 27-28 September 2007)

    OECD Development Centre, 2007
    Experts agree that a development finance system must be owned by developing countries in order to reduce poverty and achieve sustained economic growth. Ahead of the 2008 High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra (Ghana), the OECD’s Global Forum on Development invited experts from South and North to an informal workshop to share their views on developing-country ownership.
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    Explaining the incidence of catastrophic expenditures on health care: comparative evidence from Asia

    Equitap, 2005
    Heavy reliance on out of pocket (OOP) financing of health care in most developing countries leaves households exposed to the risks of unforeseen medical expenditures.
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    GATS and higher education: the need for regulatory bodies

    International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2007
    This paper analyses the implications of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on education systems in developing countries such as Vietnam. It discusses mechanisms for regulating cross-border trade in higher education.
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    Differential retirement age: another face to gender discrimination

    Eldis Document Store, 2007
    Despite the rapid pace of economic change in Vietnam, this paper argues that the country remains wedded to the principle of differential retirement age for women and men across all sectors of the economy, including the civil service. The authors examine the issue of differential retirement age as another face of gender discrimination in Vietnam.
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    Reasons for not reporting deaths: a qualitative study in rural Vietnam

    Journal of World Health and Population, 2007
    Mortality rate is an important indicator for the health status of a population. Valid mortality data are obtained only when deaths are reported and registered properly.
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    Rural non-farm employment under trade reform: evidence from Vietnam, 1993-2002

    Poverty Research Unit, Sussex, 2007
    This paper examines the potential effect of macro trade policy reform on non-farm employment in rural Vietnam between 1993-2002. The results reveal that the trade policy reform had a material impact on rural non-farm employment.
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    At what price, honour?: research into domestic trafficking of Vietnamese (girl) children for sexual exploitation, from slums in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

    Humantrafficking.org, 2006
    Examining what ‘risk variables’ positively incline Vietnamese families in Cambodia to consider the sale of their children for sexual exploitation, this study finds that major risk factors include crisis/extra-ordinary expenses, debt, the phenomenon of ‘normalisation’, materialism, family honour, cultural perceptions of the value/place of women.
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    Adapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult.
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    Inclusive growth toward a prosperous Asia: policy implications

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    Asia’s impressive economic growth is being complemented by soaring inequalities. This paper argues that if rising income and non-income inequalities are not addressed, there is a major risk to continued social and economic progress in developing Asia.
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    Measuring chronic non-income poverty

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
    In this paper the authors propose methods to empirically measure chronic non-income poverty, with an exploratory application to panel data from Vietnam (1992-1997).

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