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Farmers need new technology, skills to cope with industrialisation
06/08/2010
The nation’s farmers are adjusting to industrialisation. The dean of Can Tho University’s agriculture department, Assoc Prof Nguyen Bao Ve, discussed ways to smooth the transition with Tin Tuc (News) newspaper.
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Accelerating service export
06/08/2010
In the 2001 – 2005 period, Vietnam’s export service grew by 15.7% per annum on the average, higher than the projected target of 15%. Service export value increased from $3.32 billion in 2001 to $5.65 billion in 2005, exceeding the expected goal of $4 billion.
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Extortion at the gate Will Viet Nam join the WTO on pro-development terms?
06/08/2010
As Viet Nam negotiates entry to the World Trade Organisation, the world’s most powerful countries are working hard to exact the onerous ‘WTO-plus’ commitments which have become characteristic of accession proceedings. Membership could help Viet Nam to benefit from international trade, supporting its efforts to reduce poverty, but the demands from rich countries for excessive liberalisation of imports and foreign investment threaten to undermine this goal and to destroy livelihoods, particularly in rural areas.
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Is the emerging non-farm market economy the route out of poverty in Vietnam?
06/08/2010
Abstract: Are the household characteristics that are good for the transition to a more diversified
market-oriented economy in Vietnam also important for reducing poverty?
Or are there trade-offs? The determinants of both poverty incidence and participation
in rural off-farm activities are modeled as functions of household and community
characteristics using comprehensive national household surveys for 1993 and
1998. While there are some common causative factors, such as education and
region of residence, the processes determining poverty and inhibiting diversification
are clearly not the same. Participation in the emerging rural non-farm market
economy will be the route out of poverty for some, but certainly not all, of Vietnam’s
poor.
JEL classifications: I30, O12, O53.
Keywords:
Poverty, welfare, income diversification, off-farm income, Vietnam.
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Do as I say, not as I do The unfair terms for Viet Nam’s entry to the WTO
06/08/2010
As Viet Nam begins its tenth and possibly final year of accession negotiations, some WTO members are determined to use their power to prise open Viet Nam’s markets, even for their dumped agricultural surpluses. This low-income country is being forced to make ‘WTO-plus’ commitments (that go beyond the demands made of existing WTO members) as the price for WTO membership. This threatens Viet Nam’s success in poverty reduction. Rich countries should look beyond their own short-term commercial interests and allow Viet Nam to accede on pro-development terms.
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Services sector development : A key to Viet Nam’s sustainable
06/08/2010
This paper is a short version of a larger study entitled Options and Recommendations for a
Comprehensive Development Strategy for the Services Sector in Viet Nam up to 2020,1 conducted
in 2004 in the framework of the project “Capacity Strengthening to Manage and Promote Trade in
Services in Viet Nam in the Context of Integration” (or “Trade in Services” Project VIE/02/009), which
is currently being funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and implemented
by the Department of Trade and Services of the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).
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