
Client: The World Bank Time: 08 – 12/2018 Overview: Over the period May 2007 through June 2016, the Government of Vietnam implemented an ambitious Mekong Delta Transport Infrastructure Development Project (MDTIDP) in an amount of US$396.3 million with funding support from the World Bank Group and the Government of Australia. The project was implemented across…

On July 25th, the Director of Mekong Development Research Institute (MDRI) has attended the Conference of ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute on Inequality and Exclusion in Southeast Asia. This conference presents eight Southeast Asian country cases. Each study provides an overview of inequality in income, wealth and opportunity, a discussion of salient features of inequality…
Female leadership and borrowing constraints: Evidence from an emerging economy Anh Tuan Bui, Cuong Viet Nguyen , Thu Phuong Pham and Duc Tung Phung JEL classification: J16 J54 L25 Keywords: CEO gender, Credit access, Vietnam Abstract This study investigates the differences in credit access between male-managed and female-managed firms usingtwo Enterprise Censuses in Vietnam. Our…
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