ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This report was written by a team from the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
(VASS), which comprised of Nguyen Thang (team leader), Nguyen Thi Thu Phuong, Tran Ngo Minh Tam, Le Dang Trung and Nguyen Thi Thu Hang (Center for Analysis and Forecasting – CAF), with technical and logistics support by Tran Thi Lan Anh, Pham Minh Thai, Nguyen Thi Van Ha, Hoang Thanh Tu, Nguyen Thuy Chung, Nguyen Thi Nguyet Anh and Nguyen Thi Hai Oanh. The report mainly draws on key findings of the Vietnam Poverty Assessment 2008-2010, which was coordinated by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences under the overall guidance of Prof. Do Hoai Nam, VASS President; and with the participation of numerous research institutes and individual researchers and experts from both inside and outside VASS.
Institutes that implemented the Participatory Poverty Assessment 2008 include the Institute of Anthropology and the Institute of Economics (both are under VASS) as well as the Institute of Labor and Social Affairs (under the Ministry of Labor Invalids and Social Affairs), the Center for Agricultural Policy (under the Institute of Policies and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) and the Center for Development and Integration (a Vietnamese NGO). Authors of technical background papers prepared for the Vietnam Poverty Assessment 2008-2010 include Bob Baulch (independent expert), Bui Trinh (General Statistical Office), Che Tuong Nhu (Australian National University – ANU), Paulette Castel (independent expert), Dang Van Ky (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), Hoang Thi Thanh Huong (National Economics University - NEU), Tom Kompas (ANU), Le Thuc Duc (CAF), Nguyen Ngoc Anh (Development and Policies Research Center – DEPOCEN), Nguyen Viet Cuong (NEU), Nguyen Tam Giang (independent expert), Nguyen Quang Ha (Forestry Ministry of Vietnam), Nguyen Thi Thanh Ha (CAF), Nguyen Thi Minh Hoa (CAF), Nguyen Duc Nhat (DEPOCEN), Nguyen Thi Thu Phuong (CAF), Pham Thai Hung (NEU), Pham Thi Anh Tuyet (CAF), Pham Van Ha (Academy of Finance, Ministry of Finance), Phung Duc Tung (Indochina Research and Consulting, IRC), To Trung Thanh (NEU), Vu Hoang Dat (CAF) and Vu Hoang Linh (IRC). Excellent editorial work was provided by Nguyen Thu Huong (CAF) and Le Nguyet Han Giang (CAF’s intern).
The poverty assessment received technical and financial support from a number of Vietnam’s international development partners including the World Bank in Vietnam, AusAID, the Ford Foundation, the Department for International
Development (DFID), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and others. Valuable
technical advice was provided by Martin Rama, Valerie Kozel, Carrie Turk, Francisco Ferreira, and James Anderson from the World Bank. Substantive comments were received from Nguyen Tien Phong, Assistant Representative and Head of Poverty Reduction and Social Development Cluster (UNDP in Vietnam); Deepak Mishra, Lead Economist (World Bank in Vietnam); and Francois Roubaud, Senior Research Fellow (Development, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme - DIAL, France). Thanks also go to participants of three regional consultation workshops with Vietnamese policy makers and researchers, which were held in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City in August 2010, of a seminar held at offices of the World Bank in Vietnam on 28 October 2010 and of a workshop with Vietnam’s International Development Partners held on the premises of VASS
