Viet Nam has made significant progress in expanding social insurance coverage in recent years. However, coverage amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remains very low and very few workers in this sector are expected to receive a pension in retirement. Drawing on two datasets for...

One of the important political goal in the coming years in Vietnam is the achievement of universal coverage of health insurance. For that purpose the government is pursuing the strategy to provide free health insurance cards to all the poor, the ethnic minority populations and the persons living...

This paper investigates the determinants of the participation of workers of the informal sector in a public voluntary pension scheme. Based on answers of the workers of the informal sector in Vietnam about their willingness to participate in an actuarially fair pension system, it forecast their...

Since 1947, the Vietnam Social Security has provided social insurance to public servants and armed forces personnel in Vietnam. In 1995, the system became mandatory to the employees of the newly developing private sector. The mandatory coverage of the private sector was first restricted to the...