Ho Chi Minh City faces significant and growing flood risk. Recent risk reduction efforts may be insufficient as climate … demonstrates how robust decision making can help Ho Chi Minh City develop integrated flood risk management strategies in the face … flood risk management in Ho Chi Minh City's Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe canal catchment area. It found that the soon …

. Three projects are considered - in India, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. The results are still tentative in terms of both …

incidence of Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization. Provincial-level poverty reduction after full liberalization …, but the northwestern area of Vietnam is likely to lag behind. Furthermore, poverty can be shown to increase under … emergence from poverty depend on individual household characteristics of economic participation and asset holding. To fully …

Vietnam's Health Care Fund for the Poor (HCFP) uses government revenues to finance health care for the poor, ethnic …

How does Vietnam's public safety net affect outcomes for the poor? Although social welfare programs in Vietnam are … centrally mandated, they are locally implemented according to local norms and local poverty standards and often rely heavily on … in the data from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey. She looks at the role of location in determining whether the poor …

The authors combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the … household and geographic characteristics using the 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Survey. Next, they combine the results with … data on the same household characteristics from the 1999 census to estimate the incidence of poverty in each province. The …