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Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining the competitiveness of nations and … firms. The relationship between innovation and exporting has been investigated for many countries. However, there is a … paucity of research in Vietnam with respect to this issue. In this paper we examine whether innovation performed by Vietnam …
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Regional science policy aims at the creation of productive knowledge clusters, which are central places within an epistemic landscape of knowledge production and dissemination, K-clusters are said to have the organisational capability to drive innovations and create new industries. The following...
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Using firm-level panel data collected in Vietnam bi-annually from 2005 to 2013, this paper examines whether innovation … random effect ordered probit show that the innovation activity is persistent among these small firms. Our estimation results … also show slightly different roles of human capital of firm’s owner and employees in innovation activities. While the owner …
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National Innovation Systems (NIS) plays a crucial role in countries’ efforts to catch up with technological advances … an analysis of the institutions, policies and linkages that characterize Viet Nam’s national innovation system. It … focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s system of innovation that Viet Nam has put in place in order to …
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Vietnam is now at the critically important juncture as the country is preparing the National Socio‐economic Development Strategy 2011‐2020 (NSDS). The NSDS will guide the two five‐year plans in the next decade, and provide key inputs for the Eleventh Party Congress, scheduled to be held in...
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The main purpose of this report is to measure the impact of poverty reduction programs and policies of Ho Chi Minh City – the biggest city in Vietnam - in the period 2009-2013 using both quantitative and quality methods. In general, poverty reduction programs have positive impacts on living...
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This study presents risk assessment of natural disasters in the poor provinces in Northern Mountain of Vietnam. We construct an Aggregate Risk Index that is a composite index comprising of three separate components: the Hazard Potential Index, Hazard Exposure Index and Coping Capacity Index....
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To increase the opportunities for poor ethnic minorities to benefit from economic growth the government of Vietnam implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest Hardships in the Ethnic Minority and Mountainous...
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Vietnam has been implementing a large number of poverty reduction programs. This study aims to assess the targeting and implementation of the National Targeted Programmes for Poverty Reduction in Vietnam. It find that the effectiveness of the programme has been constrained by limited capacities...
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Labour contributions provided by villagers are central to government policy on rural infrastructure development in Vietnam. This brief report is an initial step to assess problems and provide analysis of the contribution system, and outline the minimum required to ensure that the poor access...
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