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.

Assessment of sustainable foreign economic activity strategies of Russian corporations

Abstract: In modern economic literature, several strategies for the development of enterprises are considered at the theoretical level. However, as an independent form of strategy, foreign economic activity strategy is not considered, or not enough attention is paid to it. The purpose of the article is to identify the strategies of foreign economic activity of Russian enterprises in the oil and gas, metallurgical industries, and the food industry, based on their annual reports and ratings of Russian analytical agencies. The objectives of the study are, firstly, the development of a methodology for assessing the results of strategies for foreign economic activity, and secondly, the analysis of strategies for foreign economic activity, as a result of their commodity market, resource market, technological, integration, and financial investment strategies. As a result of the study, the features of Russian corporations’ strategies of foreign economic activity have been revealed. Their trajectories are shown in the “commodity item - country” coordinate system.

Family values of Vietnamese living in Vietnam and Poland

Abstract: This article focuses on the results of the study on family values of Vietnamese living in Vietnam and Poland. The participants were 196 Vietnamese (100 people in Vietnam, 96 people in Poland) and 15 people who got married with Poles. The methods used included questionnaire and intensive interview. The study used traditional family values of Vietnamese as the background for data analyses and comparison of two groups. The study results showed that Vietnamese participants continued to confirm basic traditional family values such as filial piety, respect for parents, especially in parents – offspring relations; faithfulness, benevolence and righteousness in husband – wife relations. Besides, some differences were revealed such as participants living in Poland having more freedom than other group in relationships with offspring, and are more flexibility in opinions and behavior about sex issues. These findings confirm that living and working overseas bring some changes to the system of accepted family values.

Indirect Influence in Literature: The Case of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Han Mac Tu

Abstract: From the perspective of “new aesthetics,” a trend of post-theoretical criticism, this paper looks back at some of the achievements of Influence Study (French school) in comparative literature, in p...

Foreign banks and international shock transmission: ownership matters no more

Abstract: This paper studies the recent (2007-2009) Global Financial Crisis and its transmission through bank lending to emerging Asian economies. It highlights two channels of shock transmission identified in the literature: bank ownership and liquidity. We find that the bank ownership does not play a substantial role in the transmitting process. It is the liquidity channel measured by lending in foreign currency that is mainly responsible for the GFC transmission to the loan market in Asia, albeit the effect on the credit market is likely to be small. Additionally, our results suggest that the contraction of foreign currency liquidity is partially substituted by domestic currency lending. However, the substitution occurs only within banks and not between banks owing to high switching costs. We employ a unique dataset on new loan issuance to Asian borrowers and apply a recently developed method (Khwaja and Mian 2008) to address the identification problem in examining bank lending and shock transmission. Our results are robust according to a number of sensitivity analyses.

The policy on agricultural land and its impact on agricultural production and peasant’s life in Vietnam

Abstract: The paper analyzes the key contents of the policies on agricultural land of the State of Vietnam today, such as, the tenure of agricultural land ownership, the State’s guidelines on land price, the policy on concentration and accumulation of agricultural land, the policy on agricultural land tax and policy on compensation for agricultural land recovery. Then the paper process to evalute the impact of Agricultural Land Policies to Vietnam’s Agriculture in the Renovation Period as well as the Impact of Agricultural Land Policies on Agricultural Land Fund. The paper also analyzes both the positive impacts and unexpected impacts of Land Policies on the Peasant Life. Through the research the paper comes to the conclusion that despite many outstanding achievements of renovated management policies on the agricultural land, there will be new issues and problems relating to policies on land, which should be addressed timely and prorperly in order to help Vietnam develop its modern and sustainable agriculture.