Vietnamese Archives - Oxfam Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Public Good or Private Wealth? Universal health, education and other public services reduce the gap between rich and poor, and between women and men

21/01/2019

13 documents

40 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese

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Our economy is broken, with hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty while huge rewards go to those at the very top. The number of billionaires has doubled since the financial crisis and their fortunes grow by $2.5bn a day, yet the super-rich and corporations are paying lower rates of tax than they […]

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Discussion paper

The Future of Business: Shaping inclusive growth in South-East Asia

10/09/2018

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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South-East Asia has seen remarkable economic growth over recent decades but also faces serious challenges, especially growing levels of inequality. Solutions are emerging, and the region’s leaders have agreed that inclusive growth is the way forward. Inclusive economies need inclusive businesses. Although at an early stage, we’re witnessing the potential for business to deliver the […]

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Briefing paper

Reward Work, Not Wealth: To end the inequality crisis, we must build an economy for ordinary working people, not the rich and powerful.

22/01/2018

14 documents

70 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese

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Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days. This huge increase could have ended global extreme poverty seven times over. 82% of all wealth created in the last year went to the top 1%, and nothing went to the bottom 50%. Dangerous, poorly paid work for the many […]

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Research report

Labour Rights in Vietnam: Unilever’s progress and systemic challenges

04/07/2016

2 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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In 2011, Oxfam published a study into the gap between Unilever’s high-level policies on labour rights and the reality on the ground for workers in Vietnam. Oxfam has reviewed the progress made since 2011 and found that the company’s overall commitment to respecting human and labour rights has been strengthened as a result of effective […]

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Case study

A Call For Action: Young people’s views on climate change – Viet Nam

04/05/2010

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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This booklet contains a small selection from 20,000 entries in the “Climate is changing, so is our life” competition for students throughout Viet Nam. In collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training and Save the Children, Oxfam organised this competition as part of the climate change awareness raising campaign. The messages are aimed at […]

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Briefing paper

Public Health at Risk: A US free trade agreement could threaten access to medicines in Thailand

01/04/2006

7 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, Indonesian, Khmer, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese

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New stringent drug patent and marketing rules being negotiated in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and Thailand would limit competition and reduce access to affordable medicines in Thailand. This would threaten the future of existing successful Thai HIV/AIDS treatment programmes, which rely on inexpensive generic drugs, and thus deprive thousands of people […]

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Briefing note

Mind the Gap: Countdown to Viet Nam’s accession to the WTO

01/12/2005

2 documents

9 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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Viet Nam is entering its final stages of accession negotiations. Although it is unlikely that it will achieve the goal of joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by the time of the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in December, negotiators want a swift end to the process. Analysis of progress made between the two Working Party […]

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Briefing paper

Do as I say, not as I do: The unfair terms for Viet Nam’s entry to the WTO

06/04/2005

4 documents

25 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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In 2005, its tenth year of accession negotiations, Viet Nam hopes to achieve full WTO membership. After 15 years of implementing legal, institutional, and economic reforms, together with the gradual liberalisation of international trade, Viet Nam has achieved macroeconomic stability, solid economic growth, and a halving of the incidence of poverty, from 58 per cent […]

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Briefing paper

Extortion at the gate: Will Viet Nam join the WTO on pro-development terms?

01/10/2004

2 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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As Viet Nam negotiates entry to the World Trade Organisation, the world’s most powerful countries are working hard to exact the onerous ‘WTO-plus’ commitments which have become characteristic of accession proceedings. Membership could help Viet Nam to benefit from international trade, supporting its efforts to reduce poverty, but the demands from rich countries for excessive […]

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