Skilling Up Vietnam

Skilling Up Vietnam
Author: Christian Bodewig
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-07-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1464802319

The demand for workforce skills is changing in Vietnam’s dynamic economy. In addition to job-specific skills, Vietnamese employers value cognitive skills, like problem solving, and behavioral skills, like team work. This book presents an agenda of change for Vietnam’s education system to prepare workers to succeed in Vietnam’s modernizing economy.

Vietnam Assessment

Vietnam Assessment
Author: Suiwah Leung
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780700706068

This text examines how Vietnam can achieve a sound investment climate, enabling it to catch with other countries in the Asia-Pacific region who have experienced rapid economic growth.

Does Rising Landlessness Signal Success Or Failure for Vietnam's Agrarian Transition?

Does Rising Landlessness Signal Success Or Failure for Vietnam's Agrarian Transition?
Author: Martin Ravallion
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2006
Genre: Desarrollo rural - Vietnam
ISBN:

"In the wake of reforms to establish a free market in land-use rights, Vietnam is experiencing a pronounced rise in rural landlessness. To some observers this is a harmless by-product of a more efficient economy, while to others it signals the return of the pre-socialist class-structure, with the rural landless at the bottom of the economic ladder. The authors' theoretical model suggests that removing restrictions on land markets will increase landlessness among the poor, but that there will be both gainers and losers, with uncertain impacts on aggregate poverty. Empirically, they find that landlessness is less likely for the poor and that the observed rise in landlessness is poverty reducing on balance. However, there are marked regional differences, notably between the north and the south. "--World Bank web site.

Social Inequality in Vietnam and the Challenges to Reform

Social Inequality in Vietnam and the Challenges to Reform
Author: Philip Taylor
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789812302755

This book illustrates the changing ways in which people have accumulated wealth, social and cultural capital in Vietnam's move from a socialist to a market-oriented society.

Dragons with Clay Feet

Dragons with Clay Feet
Author: Max Spoor
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780739113691

Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies--China and Vietnam. The contributions to this volume focus on the regional and sectoral impact of transformational policies, farm household decision making under a changing economic and institutional environment, and potential trade-offs between agricultural growth and sustainable land management in the two countries. The analysis of household responses to economic policies and changing institution, and their implications for agricultural production and sustainable resource use in East-Asian transition economies, is a relatively new research field. This collection by a group of Chinese, Vietnamese, and international researchers reflect the rapid progress that is being made in this important research field.

Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transition

Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transition
Author: David Dollar
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 354
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821341629

Vietnam's rapid growth has transformed the country, reducing poverty from about 75 percent of the population to about 50 percent. At the same time, its transition from a planned to a market economy has created new challenges for public policy in a wide range of areas. This volume explores issues such as which macroeconomic and structural reforms led to growth, what effect reform has had on the household economy, and how the transition has affected education, health, fertility, and child nutrition. It provides an analysis of economic and social policies and shows how micro-level data can be used to analyze the likely effect of different government expenditures and activities. It also focuses on the effect different policies have on the poor and challenges stereotypes about poverty-focused expenditures.