Achievements and challenges in the progress of reaching millennium development goals of Vietnam

Dang, Vinh and Do, Trang and Nguyen, Cuong and Phung, Thu and Phung, Tung (2013): Achievements and challenges in the progress of reaching millennium development goals of Vietnam.

Abstract

After a decade implementing the Socio-Economic Development Plan (SEDP) for the period 2001-2010, Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy (CPRGS) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Vietnam has successfully achieved its goals, and has been praised for this by the international community. Vietnam has embarked on the final stage of implementing the Millennium Development Goals. During the recent year, there are a large number of challenges such as economic slowdown, chronic poverty, rising inequality, and climate changes that can slow down the progress of MDGs. These report documents the successes and challenges in the achieving the MDGs of Vietnam.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Economic slowdown, poverty, livelihood, enterprises, labor, labor shift, climate change.
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development

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