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  Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993-98

  World Bank, 2002

  This working paper, published by the World Bank, presents and compares two approaches to measuring the fairness of out-of-pocket health care payments, and applies the approaches to data from Vietnam. The first approach defines payments as “catastrophic” if they exceed a certain proportion of income.
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  Making WTO membership work for Viet Nam: globalization as critical discourse

  Mekonginfo, 2005

  This paper asks what mechanisms are at work to turn formerly ant-capitalist leaders of Vietnam into supporters of globalisation. It concludes that globalisation is in fact a critical – liberating – discourse, providing the poor with positive examples of progress and embuing them with the 'capacity to aspire'.
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  Measuring the pace of water sector reform in Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Since the 2000 World Water Forum in The Hague, many governments have pledged to change their water policies. Reform is taking place in some Asian countries but not in others. What facilitates or hinders the reform process in individual countries? Are there common issues that can make sharing regional experiences useful?
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  Statistics on Women and Men in Viet Nam

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  This brochure provides statistics for differences between women and men in areas of: health and population; education and literacy; household composition; political representation; and labour and economic activity. Women in Vietnam suffer from inequalities in many ways.
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  Men Who Have Sex with Men and HIV in Vietnam: A Review

  Guilford Publications, New York, 2004

  Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Vietnam's urban centres are increasing in numbers and visibility. Although limited to a few surveys, the available data on MSM in Vietnam show that they are at increased risk of HIV infection due to high numbers of sexual partners, high rates of unsafe sex, and inconsistent condom use.
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  Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to the Year 2010

  Asian Development Bank, 2003

  The renovation process in Vietnam in the past decade has enabled significant economic growth as well as and greater rights and more important economic roles of farming households. However, much of this reform has focussed on men as head of households, meaning men have benefited more from economic reform, both economically and in terms of their power within the household.
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  On assessing pro-poorness of government programmes: international comparisons

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005

  This paper proposes a new "Pro-Poor Policy (PPP)" index, which measures the pro-poorness of government programmes, as well as basic service delivery in education, health and infrastructure.
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  Gender Strategy and Implementation Plan for Agriculture and Rural Development

  Asian Development Bank, 2004

  While laws and policies in Vietnam guarantee equality between women and men, in practise their implementation is not equal, for example with regard to land use rights, access to credit, and information and technological extension.
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  The Doha development agenda: impacts on trade and poverty

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  This series of briefing papers summarises of the principal issues of the WTO round, how the outcome might affect poverty, the progress of the negotiations, and the impact on four very different countries.Briefing papers are:“Trade liberalisation and poverty reduction” analyses potential Doha reforms and their poverty reduction effects“Principal issues in the Doha negotiations” pres
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  Strategic gender interventions and poverty reduction: principles and practice

  Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, 2004

  This manual has been developed to support the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction projects in Asia. It focuses on identifying strategic gender initiatives to help enhance women’s agency in the household and community.

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