Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6.00-7.30pm, "Exploring the Migration and Development Nexus " The Conference Room, National Economics University 2nd floor, Building 10, Giai Phong road, Hanoi
Abstract The presentation includings four parts, talking about trends in international migration, the link between the migration and development, and remitances; the final part analyzes a case study of the migration and development between Europe and North Africa. It shows that SEM countries use migration as a development strategy to alleviate unemployment pressures and attract foreign currencies; migration has a direct impact on poverty and an indirect impact on development...
Speaker Dr. Andera Gallina is an Associate Professor at Department of Society and Globalization, the Director of Federico Caffè Centre of Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark. Dr. Gallina is currently on leave of absence from the University and working at GVC-Italy (NGO) Country Representative in Vietnam.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 Time: 6.00-7.30pm, "Social purposes businesses for community development in Ontario, Canada - The first survey of the population " Place: The Conference Room, National Economics University 2nd floor, Building 10, 207 Giai Phong road, Hanoi
Abstract Community development, particularly for economically and socially marginal sub-populations in Canada, has historically been delivered through nonprofit and nongovernmental organisations. Recently, however increased discussion and experimentation has looked to more market-based approaches to community development. One is these is the establishment of 'social purpose businesses' which are designed to be both economically successful and also to employ and train some group of disadvantaged people. This presentation will profile the FIRST survey of social purpose businesses ever undertaken to establish the broad characteristics of the population. The findings are quite a strong contrast to the manner in which social purpose businesses are portrayed in popular community development and international development contexts.
Speaker Dr. Raymond Dart is an Associate Professor in the Business
Administration Program at Trent University, Canada. His research focuses on nonprofit and ngo innovation, social change strategy and environmental sustainability (particularly at the community level). Visit this website http://people.trentu.ca/rdart/ for more information.
All is welcome, admission fee is free. Your feedbacks on any aspects of the seminar are appreciated. For more information about the MDE and our seminars,
March 13, 2007. Dr. Nicolaus Tideman Professor of Economics, Economics Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University USA. And Mr. Bruno Moser, consultant specialized in fiscal policies, University of Bern: “Why Viet Nam Should Collect All of the Rent of Land as Public Revenue”.
2006
January 17th, 2006, Dr. Martin Rama, Lead Economist, World Bank, Hanoi: “Vietnam Development Report 2006: Business”
February 28th, 2006, Dr Martin Ravallion and Dr Dominique van de Walle Senior Research Manager and Lead Economist (respectively), Development Research Group, World Bank: "Does Rising Landlessness Signal Success or Failure for Vietnam's Agrarian Transition?"
May 10th, 2006, Mr Scott Cheshier and Mr Jago Penrose Specialists in Economics – UNDP: “SOE Reform as 'Keeping the Big and Releasing the Small': Preliminary Evidence from Hai Phong”
May 30th, 2006, Dr. Adershir Sepehri, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba, Canada: “The Influence of Health Insurance on Hospital Admission and the Length of Stay - the Case of Vietnam”
July 27th, 2006, Dr. Susan Adams, Economist - Administration - Professor, International Monetary Fund: "Exchange rate and Monetary policy".
August 29th, 2006, Dr. Nguyen Xuan Giao, Ph. D candidate, Univerity of Texas at Arlington, USA: "Agency Costs, Executive Compensation, Bonding and Monitoring in US Corporations".
September 27th, 2006, Dr. Indermit S. GillSector Manager in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management World Bank's East Asia and Pacific Regional Office: "An East Asian Renaissance: Ideas for Growth".
October 24, 2006, Dr. Lauri McNown, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado: "How Structure Affects Outcomes: US Election Timing and Vietnam's WTO Accession".
November 7, 2006, Dr. Robert McNown, University of Colorado, Boulder, Fulbright Lecturer, National Economics University, Hanoi: "Vietnam – U.S. Trade Relations:Advantages and Risks of Bilateral Trade Agreements".
November 28, 2006. Mr. Tran Quoc Trung Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam. And Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tung MDF Indochina Training and Consultancy BV: "The changing role of non-farm household enterprises in Vietnam".
December 5, 2006. Dr. Robert McNown, University of Colorado, Boulder, Fulbright Lecturer, National Economics University, Hanoi: “Anomalies in Testing and Estimation with Non-stationary Variables”.
December 19, 2006. Mr. Nguyen Xuan Giao University of Texas at Arlington Department of Finance and Real Estate: “Do Analysts' Forecasts Add Value To Investors? The Case of Forecast Value, Earnings Horizon and Contrarian Investment Strategies”.
2005
January 25th 2005, Dr. Do Quy Toan of the World Bank, Washington DC. "Superstitsion: Theory and Evidence from Vietnam"
March 17th 2005, Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Chief Economist of the IMF, Washington, D.C. "Why Does Aid Not Enhance Growth?"
March 25th 2005, Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev Dehejia, Roberta Gatti. "WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT CHILD LABOR? THE EDUCATION, LABOR MARKET, AND HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF CHILD LABOR"
April 5th 2005, Anne Scott, Human Resources Consultant Vietnam. "People power and productivity: lessons for Vietnam"
May 13th 2005, Professor Franklin Havlicek, Adjunct Professor and Scholar in Residence at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. "The Political Economy of Globalization: A Critical Review of Tom Friedman's "The World Is Flat"
May 17th 2005, Dr. Doan Hong Quang, Economist, World Bank, Hanoi. "Securing Property Rights & Economic Development in Vietnam"
May 24th 2005, Dr. Dominique van de Walle & Dr. Martin Ravillion, Lead Economist & Research Manager (respectively) World Bank, Washington. "Land re-allocation in Vietnam's agrarian transition"
May 31st 2005, Edmund J. Malesky, Ph.D., Consultant Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative. "Assessing the Impact of the Provincial Regulatory Environment on Private Sector Development: Introducing the Provincial Competitiveness Index"
June 14th 2005, Bruno Moser, Consultant International Land Economics. “Land Value Taxation – a Solution for Viet Nam? Using Land Values to Pay for Public Services and Foster Social Justice”
Aug 23rd 2005, Steve Parker - Chief of Party, STAR-Vietnam Project. “Trading with Vietnam: The USA Bilateral Trade Agreement and Vietnam's WTO accession”
October 11st , 2005, Aylette Villemain, Independent Consultant, "Project Design and Development: A Whirlwind Introduction to the Logical Framework (Logframe)"
November 1st, 2005, Dr. Klaus Kirchmann, UNDP, "How to get policies implemented more effectively - case study of communal planning and budgeting."
December 13rd, 2005, Professor Sang-Woo Nam Senior Research Coordinator Japan Fund for Public Policy Training (JFPPT, Hanoi) Asian Development Bank Institute: "What Corporate Governance Model for Vietnam?"
December 22nd, 2005, Mr. Bruno Moser, Private Consultant: “A second look at Economics Models and Best Practice in public finance"
2004
February 10th 2004, Junichi Mori, Director, Economic Research Department, Institute for International Monetary Affairs (IIMA), 'The Asian Bond Market Initiative: Implications for Vietnam'.
March 9th 2004, Dr Charles Adams, Assistant Director, Office for Asia & Pacific, IMF, ‘The Global and Regional Outlook: Issues and Challenges’.
March 16th 2004, Raymond Mallon, ‘Viet Nam: A Transition Tiger?’.
April 6th 2004, Pham Van Hung, Agriculture and Resource Economics, The University of Sydney, ‘The Economics of Land Fragmentation in the North of Vietnam’.
May 4th 2004, Associate Professor Ardeshir Sepehri, University of Manitoba, ‘Does non-profit health insurance reduce financial burden? Evidence from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey panel’.
May 18th 2004, Chi Truc Pham and Trang Thien Tran, Mekong Economics Ltd., ‘Rural Households’ Access to Resources’.
August 24th 2004, Phil Gray, Senior Energy Specialist, World Bank, ‘Private Participation in Infrastructure: Wave of the Future, or Blast from the Past? Lessons from International Experience for Vietnam’.
August 31st 2004, Paul Burke, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Sydney, ‘Aid and Growth: A Study of South East Asia’.
September 21 2004 Dr. Vo Tri Thanh, Central Institute for Economic Management, Ministry of Planning and Investment, “The Inflation and Exchange Rates in VN: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications”.
November 11th 2004, Dr. Calla Wiemer, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, “China’s Economic Presence in Asia”.
November 29th, 2004, Professor Robin Burgess, Director of the Economic Organisation and Public Policy Programme, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, "Halving Global Poverty".
2003
January 23rd2003, Martin Rama, Lead Economist of The World Bank in Vietnam, 'Earning differentials between public and private sector workers: Are Public Sector Workers Underpaid?'.
February 13th 2003, Carl Kalapesi, Mekong Economics, 'The Economics of the 'Non-Market Economy' Issue: Catfish and Vietnam'.
March 25th 2003, Sally Marsh, M.Sc ACIAR Research Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, The University of Sydney, ' Farm Size and Land Use Changes in Vietnam Following Land Reforms'.
March 28th 2003, Prof. Dr. Manfred Zeller, The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) The Hague, 'An Operational Tool for Evaluating Poverty Outreach of Development Policies and Projects'.
May 27th 2003, Binh T. Nguyen, Department of Economics, Georgetown University, 'A Quantile Regression Decomposition of Rural-Urban Inequality in Vietnam'.
June 3rd 2003, Dr Donna Brennan, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sydney, NSW/ REAP Research Pty Ltd, 'An Evaluation of the Sustainability of Rice-Shrimp Farming Systems in the Mekong Delta'.
June 24th 2003, Dr Quy-Toan Do, World Bank, 'Land Rights and Economic Development: Evidence from Viet Nam'.
June 30th 2003, Frances Perkins, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia), Economic Analytical Unit, 'Globalisation: Keeping the Gains'.
October 28th 2003, Marie-Hélène Cloutier, Université Laval, 'Education and Poverty in Vietnam: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis'.
November 25th 2003, Dr Susan Adams, IMF Representative in Vietnam, 'Deflationary Risks and Policy Options', Based on IMF Occasional Paper 221, “Deflation: Determinants, Risks, and Policy Options”.
December 2nd 2003, Dr Karel Jansen, Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands, 'Financial Cooperation in East Asia'.
December 16th 2003, Dr Ray Trewin, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), 'Industry Adjustment and Agricultural Trading Arrangements in Developing Countries'.
2002
15th January 2002, Dr Brian Van Arkadie, Economist, Former Professor of Economics, ISS, The Hague, ‘Lessons from Vietnamese Economic Policy’.
22nd February 2002, Dominique van de Walle and Martin Ravallion, World Bank, Washington, ‘The Mystery of the Vanishing Benefits: An Introduction to Impact Evaluation’.
26th February 2002, Dominique van de Walle and Martin Ravallion, World Bank, Washington, ‘Land Reform and Welfare Impact’.
March 12th 2002, Mr Jordan Ryan, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, ‘Vietnam Revisited’.
April 23rd 2002, Mr John Bentley, International Legal Advisor, UNDP, World Bank and Government of Vietnam, ‘Law and International Competitiveness in Vietnam’.
May 22nd 2002, Edmund Malesky, PhD Candidate, Duke University. ‘At Provincial Gates: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment Flows on Provincial Governance’.
June 18th 2002, Mr Hilton Root, Consultant, US Department of Treasury, Washington, D.C, ‘The U.S. Millennium Challenge Account – US Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy and Good Governance’.
June 20th 2002, Mr David Roland-Holst, James Irvine Professor of Economics, Director of the Rural Development Research Consortium, California, USA, ‘Vietnam’s Accession to the WTO and Trade Horizons to 2020: Issues and Perspectives’.
June 28th 2002, Mr Jeffery Brown, PhD, Senior Associate, FACTS Inc., Hawaii, ‘Key Issues in Asia – Pacific Oil Markets’.
July 17th 2002, Mr Daniel Muller, TOEB/SMRP Research Project, ‘Land Use Dynamics in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: A Spatial Econometric Approach Combining Village Survey Data with Satellite Imagery Interpretation’.
September 11th 2002, Ms Puk Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Department of Sociology, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, ‘Female Headship in the Red River Delta, Vietnam’ (puk@u.washington.edu).
September 25th 2002, Prof. Rhys Jenkins, Dr. John Thorburn, Dr. Khalid Nadvi, Ms Kirsty Sutherland, Prof. Hafiz Mirza, ‘Globalisation and Poverty in Vietnam’, preliminary results of a three-year research programme sponsored by the DfID, (j.t.thoburn@uea.ac.uk, K.M.Nadvi@ids.ac.uk).
October 2nd 2002, Dr Youdi Schipper, MDE programme, University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, ‘ Reforming Indirect Taxes in Vietnam’ (youdi@hcm.vnn.vn).
October 30th 2002, Rob Swinkel and Dr Carrie Turk, World Bank, 'Achieving the Vietnam Development Goals: an overview of progress and challenges localizing the Millennium Development goals for poverty reduction in Vietnam'.
November 26th 2002, Dr Philippe Auffret, World Bank, 'Trade Reform in Vietnam: Opportunities with Emerging Challenges'.
December 19th 2002, Nguyen Anh Thuan, CARE Social & Health Sector Coordinator, 'The Threat of HIV/AIDs to Labour Forces and Corporate Responsibility'.
2001
3rd July 2001, Liesbet Steer, Economic Consultant, Centre for International Economics, Canberra, Australia, ‘Private Sector Development in Vietnam – The Big Challenges’.
17th July 2001, Dr Pham Lan Huong, Economist, Department for Agricultural and Rural Policies, CIEM, ‘Impacts of Trade and Investment Policies on Income Distribution in Vietnam’.
7th August 2001, Virginia Visconti, PhD Candidate, Indiana University, USA, ‘Household Decision Making and the Utilisation of Education in Vietnam’.
21st August 2001, Markus Taussig, Consultant on private Sector Development, ‘Competitiveness and Constraints to Private Sector Growth’.
2000
6th January 2000, Dr Vu Quoc Huy, Economist, UNDP, Hanoi, ‘Measuring Trade Protection in Vietnam’.
15th January 2000, Dr Dang Kim Son, Head of Policy Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, ‘Agricultural Development in Vietnam: Lessons and Challenges’.
20th January 2000, Dr Vu Viet Ngoan, Vietnam Commercial Bank, ‘Vietnam Financial Development in the Last Few Years’.
20th January 2000, Ms Nguyen Thi Hong, Economist, State Bank of Vietnam, ‘The Sustainability of Vietnam’s Current Account Deficit’.
3rd February 2000, Robert Glofcheski, Senior Economist, UNDP, Hanoi.
17th February 2000, Dr Charles Bailey, Resident Representative, Ford Foundation, ‘The Ford Foundation in Vietnam: Vision, Policies, Projects’.
1st March 2000, Dr Ravi Thanbur, Director of World Development Report, 2000, ‘Attacking Poverty’.
2nd March 2000, Ms Dinh Le Mai, Economist, National Economics University, ‘The Vietnamese Banking System in Transition: Incentive Structure and Bad Debt Problems’.
16th March 2000, Dr Vo Tri Thanh, Senior Economist, Central Institute for Economic Management, Hanoi, ‘A Macroeconomic Model of Vietnam’s Economy’
30th March 2000, Sasha Fink, Researcher, Curtin University, Australia, ‘The Economics of Toilets in Hanoi’.
6th July 2000, Associate Professor Dr Max Spoor from Institute of Social Studies, ‘Transition and Development: Development Processes in Former Soviet States’.
27th July 2000, MDE Project hosting a ‘PhD Scholarship Workshop’.
1st August 2000, Sasha Fink, Sanitation Advisor, Jaakko Poyri Infra, ‘The Economics of Hanoi Toilets’.
15th August 2000, Ray Mallon, Economic Consultant, UNDP, ‘The Enterprise Law: Implementation and Impact’.
5th September 2000, Patrick Burke, Acting Director, CARE International, Vietnam, ‘Policy and Implementation “Lessons Learned” by CARE in Vietnam’.
28th September 2000, Stefan Markowski, ‘Impact of Technological Change in Vietnam’.
10th October 2000, Ngo Vinh Long, Professor of Economics, University of Maine, USA, ‘Globalisation and the Effect on Vietnam’.
7th November 2000, John Samy, Senior Resident Representative, Asian Development Bank, ‘The ’97 Crisis in South Korea…What Lessons for Vietnam?’.
21st November 2000, Vu Quoc Huy, Economist, UNDP, ‘Measuring Vietnam’s Trade Trends, Protection and Policies’.
5th December 2000, Nicole Casellini, Environmental Coordinator, IUCN, Vietnam, ‘Implementing Environmental Economic Instruments in Vietnam’. 1999
21st October 1999, Dr Andrew Steer, Resident Representative for the World Bank in Vietnam, ‘Assessing Aid: The World Bank in Vietnam’.
4th November 1999, Dr Adam McCarty, Economist, Institute Of Social Studies, The Hague, ‘Vietnam’s Labour Market in Transition’.
18th November 1999, Professor Stanley Winer, School of Public Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, ‘ Collective Choice and the Political Economy of Taxation’.
30th November 1999, Justine Bornstein, Economic Researcher, Nagoya University, Japan, ‘Japanese ODA in Vietnam’.
2nd December 1999, Bob Blauch, World Bank, ‘Results from the Second Vietnam Living Standards Survey’.
9th December 1999, David Vincent, Managing Director, Centre for International Economics, ‘Evaluation Techniques used in the BaiBang Paper Mill Study’.
16th December 1999, Rodney Schmidt, Resident Representative, IDRC, Canada. ‘Banking for Development’.
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