Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

About: Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences is a education organization based out in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Vietnamese & Poverty. The organization has 228 authors who have published 222 publications receiving 1690 citations. The organization is also known as: VASS.

From Chinese Precious Scrolls to Vietnamese True Scriptures: Transmission and Adaptation of the Miaoshan Story in Vietnam

Abstract: This article deals with the process of adaptation of Chinese precious scrolls ( baojuan ) vernacular narratives in Vietnam in the period from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, with the example of the Princess Miaoshan story, which served the popular hagiography of Bodhisattva Guanyin (V. Quan Âm). This story was featured in several baojuan texts of the 15th-19th centuries that were transmitted from China to Vietnam in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several Vietnamese adaptations, both in Han van and in the indigenous language, transcribed in Nom characters, were circulated in the printed form. We have collected these adaptations and undertaken a comparative study of the texts, demonstrating the complex nature of the literary exchange between vernacular literature with religious themes in Vietnam and China. We examine the place of these adaptations in traditional Vietnamese culture and demonstrate the differences in the social background of the original Chinese baojuan and their Vietnamese adaptations.

The effect of input-trade liberalisation on farm and non-farm labour in Vietnam

Abstract: We assessed the impact of trade liberalisation-induced variation on the price of chemical fertilisers on farm and non-farm labour in rural Vietnam. Building on a non-separable agricultural framework, some theoretically based hypotheses are tested through a panel estimation. The estimations control for household fixed effects and possible selection bias linked to labour market regimes. We found that the liberalisation increased rural household participation into farm employment while non-farm participation was generally unaffected. Nevertheless, we also found that the liberalisation in the rice sector had a compensating effect. Some heterogeneous impacts related to the various labour market regimes were also found.

Development of Ngoc Linh ginseng in Nam Tra My district

Abstract: Ngoc Linh Ginseng is a medicinal plant with high economic value and has been selected by the Prime Minister of Vietnam as a national brand product Ngoc Linh ginseng development has helped a lot of households in Nam Tra My mountainous district, Quang Nam, Vietnam escape from poverty and become billionaires in just 4 years The article explains that success through research and analysis of stakeholders’ roles from central and local governments to business organizations and people in the conservation and development of Ngoc Linh ginseng The article also implies suggestions for the development of other agricultural products

Assessing the potential impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) outcomes: evidence from telephone surveys in the four Young Lives countries

Abstract: This paper draws on the results of telephone surveys conducted to assess the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the young people of two longitudinal cohorts (aged 19 and 26 years old at the time) of the four countries that participate in the Young Lives research programme: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. We first review the pandemic experiences of these four countries, which differed significantly, and report on the responses of the individual young people to the pandemic and the measures taken by governments. Our main focus is on how the pandemic and policy responses impacted on the education, work and food security experiences of the young people. Unsurprisingly the results show significant adverse effects in each of these areas, though again with differences by country. The effects are mostly more severe for poorer individuals. We stress the challenges that COVID-19 is creating for meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, in particular in making it more difficult to ensure that no one is left behind.