In retrospect, Vietnam has indeed gained impressive achievements in poverty reduction. Broad based economic growth has improved the well-being of almost everyone in the entire population. The general statistical...
This is a small qualitative study of the impacts of reforms in electricity tariffs. In early 2009, the Electricity Corporation of Vietnam (EVN) increased power tariffs as a part of its overall power sector...
In 2007 the General Statistics Office (GSO) launched a joint research program with the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD) to measure and analyzes the informal sector in Vietnam. Two kinds...
Vietnam is one of the only South East Asian emerging economies not to have gone into recession in 2009 in the wake of the world crisis. Nonetheless, it has been affected deeply by the crisis, as shown...
In 2007, the General Statistics Office (GSO) launched a joint research program with the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD), to measure and analyzes the informal sector in Vietnam. Two kinds...
The working paper includes the following heading: seminar organization purpose; seminars' participants; regarding training time and place; regarding organization and logistics; regarding seminar content;...
The Vietnam development report 2010 was led by the World Bank in partnership with other donors for Vietnam, covering many issues relating to modern institutions such as the State apparatus, socio-economic...
A 'bottom up' regional Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGE) model for Vietnam is constructed for 28 commodities and 8 regions (using a GSO input-output table for 2005). The model is used to analyze...
The report focuses on long term challenges of the Vietnam's institution reform process that are reflected in two aspects: (i) devolution; and (ii) accountability. These aspects belongs the modern institutions...
Vietnam is implementing a long run reform agenda for the power sector, with the aim of restructuring the sector to improve internal operations, efficiency, and the quality of services. The World Bank has...
Since 1992, Vietnam has conducted six household living standards surveys (VLSS and VHLSS), which have been extensively used in poverty analysis and monitoring. The first of these surveys, in 1992-93 collected...
Since 1947, the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has provided social insurance to public servants and armed forces personnel in Vietnam. In 1995, the Government merged the social insurance unit of the Ministry...
Although economic reform has brought remarkable progress in poverty reduction in Vietnam, the scale and depth of ethnic minority poverty in Vietnam presents one of the major challenges to achieving the...
The study merged two databases: the database on patients' visits collected for claim control and reimbursement purpose and, the database on the insured that is used to issue the health insurance cards...
The study starts with a classification of the enterprises depending on their participation to the Vietnam social security. Among the enterprises that contribute, one striking feature is that on average...
The purpose of this report is to provide a detailed analysis of the behavior of cropping output in agriculture between 1992 and 2006 in Vietnam at both the national and regional level. There are several...