This paper analyzes China’s and Vietnam’s performance in reducing under-five child mortality in a comparative … the provision of key public services deteriorated. As a result, child mortality reduction in China and Vietnam was only … the relative status of women, which is better in Vietnam than in China. The other stems from the fact that the perverse …

The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has …. The South China Sea is defined as "Mediterranean." By comparing it to other maritime spaces, like the Baltic and the … from concepts of the cultural theory of Oswald Spengler. The paper will look at the South China Sea from two perspectives …

China have attained high rates of economic growth. Export-led growth has taken over the status as model for developing … of Japan, the Tiger states and China with their respective strategies of industrial policy and export-led growth. Is …

This paper aims at analyzing the determinants of services trade flows between Vietnam and European Union. In this … of ten years from 2002 to 2011 for total services trade, services exports and services imports between Vietnam and … Vietnam and its European partner countries are mainly affected by GDP per capita gap between Vietnam and partner countries …

levels in the rural areas of Vietnam. In order to construct the FI, we implemented a survey of 900 business households in … three provinces in Vietnam. Then we estimate the FI for these 900 sampled households. Next, we use a small area estimation … method to combine this business household survey and the 2009 Vietnam Population and Housing Census to estimate the FI for …

communes – the poorest areas in Vietnam. The poverty incidence decreased from 57.5 percent to 49.2 percent during the period …

Vietnam’s extensive social security system is claimed to have played a key role in the extraordinary poverty decline …

from Vietnam Enterprise Censuses during 2008-2010. It is found that minimum wages reduce firms’ labor size, albeit at a …

To increase the opportunities for poor ethnic minorities to benefit from economic growth the government of Vietnam …