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14 Challenges when shaping capabilities for research : Swedish support to bilateral research cooperation with Sri Lanka and Vietnam, 1976–2006, and a look ahead / Jan Annerstedt, Shantha Liyanage. - Stockholm : Sida, 2008. - 114 p. (Sida evaluation ; 2008:14) The study summarizes challenges, experiences and achievements during 30 years of bilateral research collaboration between Sweden and Sri Lanka and between Sweden and Vietnam, respectively. The two collaborations both started in 1976 and has since then been financed from Swedish international development cooperation resources. The study shows several types of long-term impacts of the collaboration. A number of suggestions are made on how to reorient and change focus of possible future research collaboration between Sweden and the two countries after the Swedish bilateral development cooperation has been phased out in 2011.
http://www2.sida.se/shared/jsp/download.jsp?f=Utv2008-14_SIDA44696en.pdf&a=39696
Keywords: Bilateral aid, Development, Development. Poverty, Education, Nordic Perspective, Publications, Research, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Vietnam,
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A helping hand? : FDI and training of local personnel : A case study of a Norwegian company in Vietnam / Monika Thollefsen. - Oslo : Pedagogisk forskningsinstitutt, Universitetet i Oslo, 2009. - 102 p. (Master's thesis) This is a case study of a Norwegian company and its affiliate in Vietnam. The purpose is to evaluate the knowledge and skill transfers that take place through training, and the benefits this has for the employees and the local society. There is a particular focus on technical and vocational education and training (TVET). The study is based on qualitative interviews with corporate employees in Norway, administrative employees and managers in Vietnam, operators and warehouse workers in Vietnam and representatives for organizations working with TVET and with support to Norwegian industry in Vietnam. However, the company is currently not involved in any cooperation with local TVET institutions. The findings show that the company is providing both informal and formal training to their employees and that they offer training courses at the local level as well as in the region and globally. However, lower educated employees, operators and warehouse staff are mainly receiving task specific on-the-job training. Still, the interviewees are mainly expressing appreciation about their job and their job conditions.
http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=93633&fid=51217
Keywords: Economic issues, Education, Investment, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Publications, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Vocational education,
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A study on the economic efficiency of the offshore long line fishery in Khanh Hoa province, Vietnam / Thi Hong Nga Cao. - Tromsø : Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Universitetet i Tromsø, 2010. - 68 p. (Master's thesis) Since the 1990s, Vietnam’s government has made great efforts to develop the offshore fisheries development program. Study on the economic efficiency of the offshore long-line fishery is needed to evaluate and improve the program’s effectiveness. This thesis presents findings based on survey data collected through a representative sample of 37 registered offshore vessels operating in the Vietnam’s Exclusive Economic Zone and in the international waters. The empirical results show that excluding the government fuel subsidy, the owner of an average long-liner earns a profit of 63.363 million VND - equivalent to profit margin of 7.5% and return on investment of 16.0%. With subsidies, profits increased to 93.111 million VND and the two corresponding economic ratios also went up to 10.6% and 23.5%, respectively. This paper also discovered that the fishery in 2008 was less economically efficient than in 2004. However, the average monthly crew share is 1.8 million VND, higher than the average income per labor working in the gill net fishery in Khanh Hoa Province. A closer inspection of the economic data reveals that direct subsidy to compensate partly for fuel costs increase affected the overall fishery. Furthermore, this study provides evidence to support why an average longliner is still able to generate profits in the open access regime if vessels can capture more cost efficiency while the average revenue of relative standardised effort for all vessels is the same. Finally, this study also demonstrates, the surprising result, that the vessel group with the biggest engines, larger than 150 hp, are least cost efficient, whereas the vessels with the smallest engines, less than 90 HP, are most cost efficient and have the highest return on investment.
http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/bitstream/handle/10037/2520/thesis.pdf?sequence=2
Keywords: Agriculture, Fisheries, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Publications, Southeast Asia, Vietnam,
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After the storm : natural disasters and development in Vietnam / Uy Ngoc Bui. - Bergen : Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, 2008. - 108 p. (Master's thesis) This thesis describes the many processes which happen when a natural disaster occurs. Fieldwork was done in Ben Tre province, one year after a typhoon had hit the coastal province in the Mekong Delta in Southern Vietnam. During the 4 ½ months in the region, I talked to the many people and organisations whom have been affected. I found out that many people were not ready for the storm, but the post-disaster work had gone well, with everyone pitching in to help one another. This made me aware of the strong coping mechanism in the Vietnamese people, which I explore against the many challenges they have been put up against throughout the years, such as the Vietnam War, the Communist state, and modernity.Vietnam has a very unique history filled with conflict, and the thesis also explores how this history still affects people today. Being a Communist state, the thesis examines how the people deal with bureaucracy and state authority in their daily lives. Looking at the many challenges of the state is also of interest, as Vietnam is a developing country with many problems to solve, including rural poverty, education and population growth reduction.Natural disasters are but one of these challenges, which the Vietnamese people took with an impressive stride. The thesis explores how disasters affect the globe as a whole. Today, most scientists state that natural disasters are connected to climate change, which again is connected to globalisation, world industry and pollution. The thesis looks at how these global ideas have real consequences on the local level, through natural disasters and development projects. Because natural disasters are such encompassing events, every instance and organisation must cooperate to overcome the situation, with most developing countries having to call for international assistance from world community. The thesis looks at the details of disaster prevention and disaster management, to see how this might be improved.
https://bora.uib.no/bitstream/1956/3014/1/47689501.pdf
Keywords: Development, Development. Poverty, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 50, Natural disasters, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Publications, Southeast Asia, Vietnam,
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Viet Nam is currently a ‘young’ economy, with just nine percent of the population over the age of 60 years and a median age of 25 years. But life expectancy is increasing and fertility rates are decreasing. The elderly will make up more than a quarter of the population by 2050. Viet Nam’s pension scheme needs immediate reform to avoid future inequities between generations. The existing publicly-managed pay-as-you-go defined benefit (PAYG DB) pension scheme is fragile and predicted to deteriorate. Crisis is imminent. A research paper from the Oxford Institute of Ageing, in the UK, aims to measure the size of pension liabilities in Viet Nam and to evaluate the economic implications for relationships between generations.
http://www.id21.org/society/s1agl1g1.html
Keywords: Ageing, Social conditions, Social groups, Social welfare, Southeast Asia, Vietnam,
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Agriculture and rural development sector programme support ARD SPS 2007 - 2012 : provincial component description. - Copenhagen : Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2007. - 63 p.
http://www.niaslinc.dk/gateway_to_asia/nordic_webpublications/x506033456.doc
Keywords: Agriculture, Bilateral aid, Denmark, Development, Development. Poverty, Nordic Perspective, Publications, Rural development, Southeast Asia, Vietnam,
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Agriculture and rural development sector programme support ARD SPS 2007 - 2012 : central component description. - Copenhagen : Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2007. - 50 p.
http://www.niaslinc.dk/gateway_to_asia/nordic_webpublications/x506033448.doc
Keywords: Agriculture, Bilateral aid, Denmark, Development, Development. Poverty, Nordic Perspective, Publications, Rural development, Southeast Asia, Vietnam,
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An actor in the Vietnamese media landscape : a case study of the online newspaper VnExpress / Cecilia Eek, Erik Ellström. - Jönköping : Jönköping University. HLK, Sektionen för kommunikation, 2008. - 48 p. (Bachelor's thesis) There are no private media in Vietnam, all media activity is owned and controlled by the State and the Vietnamese media landscape is therefore relatively closed and strangled. It is not allowed to produce any news material which criticise the government or put it in bad days. In 1997, the Internet was introduced in Vietnam and online newspapers started to establish. Through investigating the underlying factors of the development and success of one of the biggest online newspapers in Vietnam, VnExpress, our study intends to describe how it has affected the Vietnamese media landscape. Based in Hanoi during ten weeks, we performed this minor field study with the support from Swedish International Development Cooperation Association, SIDA. Our case study is made from five in-depth interviews. The research questions deals with VnExpress in particular; how they have developed, how they consider their purpose as an online publication and what they find unique about their newspaper. Through the empirical findings, we can distinguish a couple of factors with which VnExpress has affected the Vietnamese media landscape. First of all, we found that their policy of always reporting news in an objective point of view has made them respected among competitors and used by the same as a source of news material. Furthermore, their close contact to readers through different channels at the editorial, giving them the opportunity to express their thoughts, makes the readers engaged and able to form their own opinions about the society. To achieve the above, it is significant that VnExpress has a unique ownership allowing them to work as free and limitless as possible in a country like Vietnam. Finally, we can see that the Vietnamese media landscape tends to become more open and we claim that online newspapers and Internet in general will have a great impact of its development.
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:3564/FULLTEXT01
Keywords: Internet, Mass media, News. Media, Newspapers, Nordic Perspective, Publications, Southeast Asia, Sweden, Vietnam,
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An analysis of the legal liability of the government of the United States of America and its chemical corporations for the effects of agent orange sprayed during the Vietnam War / Tran Nam Trung Dang. - Oslo : Juridiske fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo, 2010. - 78 p. (Master's thesis) This paper is an attempt to clarify the responsibilities under international humanitarian law of the United States, its agents and the corporations that provided the toxic herbicides, and to explore the legal difficulties in obtaining redress for the harm done.
http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/jus/2010/102187/Thesis.pdf
Keywords: 1954-1975, History, Human rights, International law, Law, Law and legislation, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Publications, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam war (1961-1975), War crimes,
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The website of the APEC Virtual Center for Environmental Technology Exchange. APEC assists municipalities, corporations and environment related institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to share environmental information via the Internet. The APEC-VC home page is designed and constructed to provide access to vast environmental information on the World Wide Web. Currently, Japan, Australia, Chinese Taipei, New Zealand, China, The Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Chile, Indonesia and Malaysia have APEC-VC up and running. The website categories are unified so that information can be retrieved in the same manner from any of the Virtual Centres in the region.
http://www.apec-vc.or.jp/index_e.asp
Keywords: China, East Asia, Environment, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 32, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 16, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam,
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