October 21, 2011
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. At some point this month, October 2011, a child will be born and the world’s population will have reached seven billion. There is a good chance that this childbirth will take place in the Asia-Pacific region; home to 61 percent of the world’s population. If the child is born in the [...]
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November 8, 2010
More children have been able to attend school in Vietnam over the last decades Vietnam has moved up three spots in an annual human development index compiled by the United Nations. According to a global report released Thursday by the UN Development Program, Vietnam ranks 113 out of 135 nations in terms of development. The [...]
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October 3, 2009
Creating the right conditions for good employment and protecting those people unable to find decent work should be an urgent priority for governments in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday. Ursula Schaefer-Preuss, vice president of Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development at ADB, was addressing a three-day conference titled “The Impact of [...]
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May 6, 2009
Bringing home the bacon isn’t what it used to be LookAtVietnam – Despite ranking second globally in rice exports, Vietnam is among the eight Southeast Asian nations identified as hotspots for potential food security issues. That warning was made in an United Nations (UN) report on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in Asia and the [...]
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March 28, 2009
Vietnam should curb its rising budget deficit and be selective in public spending, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) said following a survey. The budget deficit has reached 10 percent of the gross domestic product, Dr. Pham Lan Huong of the Central Institute of Economic Management said at the [...]
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