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From 1 June 2009, VDF has moved to
the new office. Our new address is: 10th floor, Southern bank office
building, 27 Hang Bai street, Hanoi.
The phone number and the fax number remain unchanged.
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Workshop on Identifying Poverty lines for Vietnam

On 13 May
2009, VDF invited Mr. Phung Duc Tung, a researcher at Indochina Research
and Consulting (IRC), to share his views on and estimates for poverty
line in Vietnam. This was the fourth seminar in the 2009 VDF Seminar
Series on Social Issues in Vietnam. His presentation showed that various
poverty line definitions in Vietnam made it difficult for researchers
and policy makers to have real status of poverty. As such, he suggested
to update the poverty line every five years using a unified price for
expenditure and cost of good basket, using regional and area price index
to adjust regional and area poverty line via PPP, and using CPI to
adjust poverty line accordingly to price changes. The participants
provided a number of examples to share their views on poverty line
measurements. Social protection policies for the poor were also lively
discussed, as they were deeply related to the poverty definitions.
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Workshop on Outline for the Development of Security Market Strategy
toward 2020

On
12 May 2009, VDF held the workshop on “Outline for security market
development strategy, 2010 – 2020”. Mr Nguyen Son, Director of Market
Development Department from State Securities Commission, presented the
outline of the market development strategy toward 2020. This outline
draws 9 strategy orientations and 10 groups of solutions to develop and
reorganize the Vietnam’s stock market in two periods: 2010-2015 and
2015-2020. People from Ministry of Finance, State Bank of Vietnam,
National Financial Supervisory Committee and Vietnam Development Forum
discussed about the roles and participation of related organizations in
the strategy; priority of each work of the strategy; specifying and
building quantitative targets of the strategy. Recommendations of the
discussion will be added to the outline for Vietnam’s security market
development, that will be submitted to Prime Minister for approval in
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Workshop on Sustainable Livelihoods Interventions in Marine
Protected Areas (MPAs) in Vietnam
On 15 April 2009, Mrs. Nguyen Giang
Thu, Deputy Head, Department of Science, Technology and Environment,
MARD made a presentation on Sustainable Livelihoods Interventions in
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Vietnam at VDF workshop. MPAs are
considered to be one of the most effective management tools to mitigate
marine biodiversity degradation and maintain a sustainable fishery and
tourism development for coastal inhabitants. Currently, a “Master Plan
of Vietnam MPA network to 2015 and vision to 2020” has been drafted and
submitted by MARD to the government for approval. Up to now, 04 MPAs
officially established. They included Nha Trang Bay MPA (2001), Cu Lao
Cham MPA ( 2004), Phu Quoc MPA (2007) and Con Co MPA (2008). Mrs. Thu
presented some livelihood interventions for local people living in and
around MPAs, such as environmental quality improvement, tourism
development, fish sauce production, dried fish production, handicraft
production, and agriculture development. These livelihood interventions
could help to reduce the dependence of coastal inhabitants on marine
resources. Participants at the WS shared the view that the conservation
of natural resources in general and marine resources in particular
should be more successful and sustainable if it could be a part of
socio-economic development plan of each locality.
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Workshop on Gender Division of Labor in
Households in Vietnam
On 3 April 2009, our
third 2009 Seminar Series on Social Issues in Vietnam was jointly held
with the Institute of Population and Social Studies (IPSS) at NEU. Prof.
John Knodel (University of Michigan) (photo, right) and Dr. Bussarawan
Teerawichitchainan (Singapore Management University) (photo, left)
presented their co-authored paper with two Vietnamese scholars about
gender division of labor in Vietnamese households. They used different
econometric approaches with data from the Vietnam Study of Family Change
in 2003-2004 to pursue the research objective. The estimates indicated
various differences in housework in terms of gender along with other
cohort and regional factors. Participants discussed a number of
questions on the survey, modeling and interpretation of the results.
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