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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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This paper examines gender equality in three important aspects including education, health care and employment in … is found that there are no differences in primary and lower-secondary education enrolment between girls and boys for the … still have higher education and a higher rate of literacy than women. Women are less likely than men in having wage …
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receipt of international remittances and internal remittances on education, labor and healthcare utilization of children in …
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child work hours in adjoining rural regions. This result is consistent with a possibility of increasing returns to education … earnings of the migrants and to perhaps pay for the added education expense. I do not find evidence of credit constraints …
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declining living standards, parental (especially maternal) education levels, children’s involvement in work activities, and …
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By combining two sets of survey data - provincial competitiveness index (PCI) from VNCI-VCCI and USAID and annual enterprise census from Vietnam General Statistics Office (GSO) for the period between 2005 and 2011, we estimate the effects of sub-national institutions measured by Provincial...
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National Innovation Systems (NIS) plays a crucial role in countries’ efforts to catch up with technological advances which are critical for the long-term sustainable economic growth and development of countries. This paper provides a diagnostic review of the NIS in Viet Nam such that...
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’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) enhances their exporting likelihood. Using the recently released Vietnam Small and … ‘improvement of existing products’ are important determinants of exports by Vietnamese SMEs. …
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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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insurance programs help households reduce education and medical expenses. However, there are a number of problems such as …
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