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Getting Better But Not Yet Gone: Gender Inequality in Vietnam

Monday, November 5th, 2012

In the past two decades, Vietnam has made tremendous socio-economic developments and reforms.  With an emerging middle class and declining poverty rate, Vietnam today is considered by many to be a cosmopolitan nation experiencing rapid economic growth and success.  In addition to decreasing poverty and hunger rates, many national and international efforts have been made to increase the education, social, and economic opportunities available to women. But these efforts haven’t always worked out as hoped.

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Of Marriage and Microfinance: Paths to Economic Stability?

Monday, June 11th, 2012

Foreign marriages are a sensitive subject in the Vietnamese community, and increasingly so in the international community as well.

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For Mothers in Vietnam, Things Are Getting Better

Friday, May 18th, 2012

It’s getting a little easier to be a woman in Vietnam, at least when it comes to matters of maternal health.

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