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Towards 'good enough' climate and disaster risk governance: Emerging lessons from Zambia, Nepal, Viet Nam and Uganda

Christoplos, Ian; Aben, Charles; Bashaasha, Bernard; … - 2014

This report compares and contrasts how disaster risk management is being conceptualised in relation to emerging climate change adaptation efforts and how these two agendas are influenced by different governance systems, accountabilities and social contracts in Zambia, Uganda, Viet Nam and Nepal....

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Under the State's Thumb: Results from an Empirical Survey of Civic Organizations in Vietnam

Wischermann, Jörg - 2015

Civic organizations (COs) are neither a good nor a bad thing. They are not inherently fighters for democracy or supporters of authoritarian rule. The way they develop depends on the impact that various forms of state power have on them and on their influence on the state. Vietnamese COs appear...

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Estimating the output gap to support the management of interest rates in Vietnam

2014

In this paper, I apply three methods to estimate the output gap for Vietnam to support the conduct of monetary policy … the estimation of the output gap for the State Bank of Vietnam. For the Bayesian approach, my paper closedly relies on the … paper of Tim Willems (2011) with some modifications to fit the situation of Vietnam. The output gap estimated by Bayesian …

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Poverty and access to water and water governance institutions in Con Cuong district, Nghe An Province, Vietnam: Report on the results from a household questionnaire survey

Skielboe, Thomas; Munk Ravnborg, Helle - 2011

carried out during 2008 in Con Cuong district, Nghe An province, Vietnam, this DIIS Working Paper provides a household poverty …

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Connections and the allocation of public benefits

Newman, Carol; Zhang, Mengyang - 2015

. Using panel data from Vietnam we find evidence that households with connections to local government are more likely to be …

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Economic transformation and the diversification of livelihoods in rural Viet Nam

Newman, Carol; Kinghan, Christina - 2015

Diversification of household activities away from agriculture is a key characteristic of economic development. We examine the extent of diversification among Vietnamese households, from agriculture into waged employment and entrepreneurship and whether this diversification is welfare enhancing....

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Labour and migration in rural Vietnam

Narciso, Gaia - 2015

Vietnam, on the basis of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey conducted in 2012 and 2014. The data reveal …

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Commercialization in agriculture in rural Viet Nam, 2006-14

McKay, Andy; Cazzuffi, Chiara; Perge, Emilie - 2015

The vast majority of households in rural Viet Nam undertake agricultural activities and for many this is their main livelihood. Moreover, this agriculture has become increasingly commercialized over time. This paper uses the five wave VARHS balanced panel data set to analyse three aspects of...

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Spillover effects of international standards: Work conditions in Vietnamese small and medium enterprises

Trifković, Neda - 2015

improves work conditions in small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. Certified firms pay higher wages on average. They are also …

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Gender inequality and the empowerment of women in rural Viet Nam

Newman, Carol - 2015

This paper examines gender inequality and female empowerment in rural Viet Nam. Using an extensive panel dataset on 2,181 households, we examine how the welfare of women living in rural areas has evolved during a period of dramatic rural transformation, 2008 - 14. We find that while the economic...

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