MDRI attended Closing Conference of USAID Governance for Inclusive Growth (GIG) Program
On the morning of November 6th, representatives of Mekong Development Research Institute (MDRI) have attended the Closing Conference of USAID Governance for Inclusive Growth Program (GIG) organized in Hanoi by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam. The USAID GIG Program worked with the public and private sector […]
MDRI – 5-year anniversary speech
The speech at the MDRI 5th Anniversary Ceremony delivered by Dr. Phung Duc Tung, President of Mekong Development Research Institute. — Dear MDRI Partners, colleagues, and friends, On April 17, 2013, with the support of Mr. Dang Kim Son and other senior researchers, Cuong, my six colleagues and I gave birth to MDRI. Five years have gone by […]
Conference IBCCS: “Individual Behavior, Climate Change, and Sustainability” – Call for Papers
Sustainability and climate change are recurrent questions that attract the interest of both policy makers and academic researchers. Mekong Development Research Institute (MDRI), Centre for Research in Economics Applied to Globalization (CREAM) – University of Rouen Normandy, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) are organizing a conference on “Individual Behavior, Climate […]
Tax justice for equitable health care (H-SCORE)
Overview This survey has been conducted to collect patients’ feedbacks about public health service. Oxfam and Vietnam Initiative, in cooperation with MDRI, consulting with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and hospitals, have developed an online feedback tool to measure “patient satisfaction index” (PSI). This is an important index to assess the quality and efficiency of […]
Training on Vietnam’s social safety net for Government officials of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
(18 December, 2017) Hanoi, Vietnam_MDRI is organizing a series of training on social safety net for the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. 8 government officials from the Ministry of Local Government – Rural Development and Co-operatives, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Planning came to learn about the progress of Vietnam […]
Seminar on Human Development in Vietnam: Empirical Results for Ethnic Groups and Provinces
A seminar on Human Development in Vietnam: Empirical Results for Ethnic Groups and Provinces will be held at 9.00 a.m., Sep 22 2016 at Mekong Development Research Institute (MDRI) – Floor 8, Machinco Building, 444 Hoàng Hoa Thám, Tây Hồ, Hà Nội. The presenter at the seminar is Professor Mark McGillivray, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Australia. Interested […]
Vietnam – Launching workshop for the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE)
(August 17, 2016) Hanoi, Vietnam_A month after its announcement, the grant for education improvement research in Vietnam – known as Research on Improving Systems of Education or RISE in Vietnam, was officially kicked start this morning in a workshop with attendance of over 60 representatives from ministry, donors and embassy representatives, education experts, researchers from multiple […]
MDRI joins RISE in a new project to improve learning on a large scale in Vietnam
Photo credit: The Global Partnership (www.globalpartnership.org) (June 24, 2016) OXFORD, England _ Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) – a new initiative aimed at conducting high-quality research to build evidence to enhance children’s learning throughout the world – announced today that it will begin work in Vietnam. The £4.2 million, six-year undertaking will seek […]