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.

Constructing two vietnamese corpora and building a lexical database

Abstract: Corpus-based research has formed the backbone of linguistic research in recent decades. Large text corpora are used for solving various kinds of linguistic problems, including those of quantitative linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistics. This paper reports the creation of two corpora of contemporary Vietnamese. It also describes the construction of these two equally sized Vietnamese corpora (a corpus from Vietnamese film subtitles, subtlex-viet, and a general corpus of varieties of online newspapers and stories, genlex-viet). We document the general steps of the construction and extraction of linguistic information from the language corpora and provide a road map for others who would like to create similar corpora. The resultant corpora are available in three versions: plain text, tokenized, and POS tagged. In the second half of the paper, the construction of a lexical database derived from the corpora is described. The database includes measures such as frequency of occurrence, dispersion, Mutual Information, Inverse Document Frequency, as well as vector space measures based on Latent Semantic Analysis and Hyperspace Analogue to Language. We conclude by reporting a comparison of the lexical predictors and a validation using psycholinguistic data from visual lexical decision experiments.

Vietnam–India Economic Ties Challenges and Opportunities since 2007

Abstract: Vietnam and India have had good political relations since the two countries gained independence in the 1940s. Despite the good political ties, however, economic collaboration was not a priority in bilateral relations until the 1990s. After 1990, the situation started to change as Vietnam began implementing its opening up policy and India saw Vietnam as an important partner in the deployment of its Look East Policy. Thus, both Vietnam and India have made great efforts to promote trade and investment cooperation between the two countries. Certain difficulties, nevertheless, continue to hinder bilateral economic relations. This paper is an attempt to analyse Vietnam–India economic relations since the two countries established a strategic partnership in 2007, with a focus on the economic advantages and needs of Vietnam and India, the current situation of Vietnam–India economic relations, and prospects for the further development of these relations.

The impact of exchange rates on vietnam-china bilateral trade

Abstract: Using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) methodology with both aggregate and disaggregate data, the purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the VND/CNY currency exchange rate (including exchange rate level and volatility) on trade flows between Vietnam and China. In the disaggregate models, the long-run results indicate that nine import commodities (accounting for approximately 28.67% of the total import value) are sensitive to changes in the real exchange rate level, and nine export commodities (accounting for approximately 39.15% of the total export value) also respond to changes in the exchange rate level. Most of the unaffected commodities are raw, intermediate, and simply processed products (the biggest components in total import value). The study also finds that export commodities are more sensitive to exchange rate volatility than import commodities. In addition, the results of the aggregate model indicate that there is no statistical evidence of any linkage between the exchange rate and trade (exports and imports). In other words, the exchange rate is unlikely to be an effective tool to improve the trade balance between Vietnam and China. This study contributes towards the empirical argument for effective coordination between the monetary and trade policy of Vietnam. Keywords: trade; deficit, exchange rate, import, export, China, Vietnam, autoregressive distributed lag

Affect of Uncertainty Avoidance on Venture Capital Investing Activities in Asian Countries

Abstract: This research aims to use country–level uncertainty avoidance degree to explain the variation of venture capital investing activities across different Asian countries The analysis of venture capital activity done for 11 Asian countries in period from 2003 to 2012 shows that country-level uncertainty avoidance degree have a significant negative impact on venture capital activity Specifically, countries with higher degree of uncertainty avoidance degree, has a less developed venture capital market (a smaller-sized market with smaller venture capital deals)

Labor migration flows from vietnam to thailand in the context of asean regional integration

Abstract: International migration has been always an important and compound issue by virtue of it closely relates to various facets from political, social and economic development for regions and countries. In ASEAN, international migration has been always defined as one of the fundamental features in ASEAN’s development transition (Chantavanich, Ito, and Middleton 2013). Over the last decades, the region’s economies have achieved significant and impressive growth, becoming one of the most dynamic economic performance regions in the world as well as has become more widely integrated into the regional and global economics1. The rapid growth process has transformed fundamentally economic structure of many Southeast Asian countries with the greater contribution of industrial and service sectors instead of solely based on the agriculture sector over many centuries. The demand for skills in higher income countries in the region has grown, while there is a fall in birthrates with greying populations that causes an increasing shortage of labor such as Thailand. For the lower income ones, on the contrary, the youth populations are burgeoning, which lead to the unemployment and underemployment rate are dramatically increasing such as Vietnam and Philippines.