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Lỗ hổng môi trường khi quyết định các dự án kinh tế

~ Phạm Thu Hương ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

Nguyễn Minh Đức (*) – Thứ Hai,  16/5/2016, 09:41 (GMT+7)

Các lợi ích môi trường đang bị xem nhẹ trong quy trình phê duyệt các dự án kinh tế, Ảnh TL SGT

(TBKTSG) – Về lý thuyết, trước khi quyết định một dự án, Nhà nước cần đánh giá đầy đủ các tác động kinh tế, văn hóa, xã hội, an ninh, môi trường có thể phát sinh của dự án đó… Tuy nhiên, có một thực tế là các lợi ích môi trường đang bị xem nhẹ trong quy trình phê duyệt các dự án kinh tế, và vấn đề nằm ở cả khâu chính sách và thực thi.

Các tác động môi trường của một dự án đầu tư phụ thuộc vào bốn yếu tố sau: (1) địa điểm, (2) quy mô, (3) công nghệ, và (4) biện pháp bảo vệ môi trường đi kèm dự án. Hãy thử tìm hiểu quy trình cấp phép dự án hiện nay để thấy bốn yếu tố này được xem xét và quyết định như thế nào. Tiếp tục đọc “Lỗ hổng môi trường khi quyết định các dự án kinh tế” →

Quản trị khủng hoảng – Bài học từ thế giới

~ Phạm Thu Hương ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

07/05/2016 09:52 GMT+7

TTCT– Khủng hoảng hay thảm họa có thể xảy ra bất kỳ lúc nào, bất kỳ nơi nào. Các nước đã chuẩn bị cho những tình huống bất thường và xử lý ra sao?

Quản trị khủng hoảng - Bài học từ thế giới
5 năm sau thảm họa ở vùng vịnh Mexico vẫn còn cá heo chết -Louisiana department of fisheries and wildlife

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5 ways public-private partnerships can promote gender equality

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

blog.worldbank – From my corner of the World Bank, the development objective of promoting gender equality can seem vague or unrelated to what we do. We can give three cheers for our colleagues who focus on gender issues for successfully developing and releasing  the World Bank’s new Gender Equality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth Strategy — and then return to our work of closing the infrastructure financing gap and helping governments prioritize their infrastructure projects.

But are there areas in our own work on public-private partnerships (PPPs) where we can and should evaluate the role gender plays? Based on the quantity of literature my colleagues at the PPP Infrastructure Resource Center (PPIRC) have amassed in version 1.0 of their impact of PPPs on gender inclusion page of their website, the answer is yes. Tiếp tục đọc “5 ways public-private partnerships can promote gender equality” →

How to protect infrastructure from a changing climate

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

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Every other month the news seems to flash images of extreme weather – disastrous heat waves, floods of biblical proportions, and epic storms.  On the rise as a result of a changing climate, these weather events can cause a myriad of damages and put the world’s critical infrastructure at risk. This costs money. The devastating 2010 floods in Pakistan caused close to $2 billion in damages to physical infrastructure, according to World Bank estimates. And Hurricane Sandy wreaked $1.13 billion in damages on New York City’s infrastructure alone (New Jersey and other parts of New York State saw significant damages as well).

Examples like these are endless.

Alongside these increasing climatic risks to the world’s existing infrastructure assets, the fact remains that many countries desperately need more and better infrastructure. This is particularly true for developing countries.  To meet the future infrastructure demands of these economies would require investment of at least an estimated additional $1 trillion a year through 2020. Tiếp tục đọc “How to protect infrastructure from a changing climate” →

Vietnam powerless to stop illegal gold mining

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này
An accident last Tuesday that killed four gold miners in the south-central province of Quang Nam has once again given rise to public disquiet over illegal gold mining in central Vietnam.

Despite nearly 40 people having been killed in nine separate gold mine accidents in Quang Nam alone since 2009, thousands continue to put their lives at risk while digging up ranges of mountains in the unlawful pursuit of the precious metal.

Despite nearly 40 people having been killed in nine separate gold mineaccidents in Quang Nam alone since 2009, thousands continue to put their lives at risk while digging up ranges of mountains in the unlawful pursuit of the precious metal.

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Vietnam’s latest minimum wage rise business as usual

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này
17 October 2015
Author: Tu Phuong Nguyen, ANUeastasiaforum – In September 2015, the National Wage Council (NWC) of Vietnam proposed an increase of 12.4 per cent to the minimum wage in 2016. The key parties — representatives of business in the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the state-sanctioned national union of workers, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) — finally reached a consensus after two stalled meetings. The process, after all, is within the state’s annual schedule and hardly goes with any substantive changes to labour market institutions.

Vietnamese workers sew trousers and shirts destined for the U.S. market at the state-owned Thang Long garment factory in Hanoi (Photo: AAP).State-led wage bargaining is conducted annually in Vietnam and thus has become a key part of maintaining harmonious industrial relations in the country. There are four different minimum wages, which are categorised according to a region’s consumer price index. The first region covers urban and industrialised areas, while the others apply to different rural areas. The NWC has proposed raising the minimum monthly wage for this region from 3.1 million dong (approximately US$138) in 2015 to 3.5 million dong (approximately US$155.7) in 2016. It is likely that the proposal will make its way into a government decree at the end of 2015. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s latest minimum wage rise business as usual” →

Thức dậy giữa thảo nguyên

~ Hoàng Thiên Nga ~ 1 bình luận

                                                         Ký sự của Hoàng Thiên Nga

        Một sớm tháng tư, tôi tỉnh giấc trong không gian yên tĩnh, thanh sạch, rực rỡ muôn sắc hoa tại khu nhà chuyên gia tọa lạc giữa những trang trại bò sữa mang thương hiệu TH True Milk, dự án đầy kiêu hãnh của bà Thái Hương, người vừa được tạp chí Forbes vinh danh là “nữ doanh nhân quyền lực nhất Châu Á”.

Bò được tắm và nghe nhạc trước khi vào ô vắt sữa
Bò được tắm và nghe nhạc trước khi vào ô vắt sữa
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E-government as a vehicle to reduce white-collar crimes

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

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asiapathway – The increasing use of the internet in recent years has caught the fancy of consumers and producers, in commodities, services, and leisure activities. The wide prevalence of wireless internet access and the portability of devices such as smartphones and tablets have increased access and diffusion of related services and products as possibly no other technology in history.

Slowly but surely, governments are getting into the act by using the cyberspace to provide services. This range of government activities related to the internet is loosely termed e-government. For instance, governments use the internet to provide information and access to various government services such as health advice, tax filings, passport applications, applications for government employment, and business registrations. E-government serves to increase accountability through transparency, enhance the efficient use of public resources, and improve the delivery of public services. Given the wide geographical area over which government services offered via the internet can be accessed, e-government can also be viewed as a form of virtual government decentralization. Tiếp tục đọc “E-government as a vehicle to reduce white-collar crimes” →

Human Rights Guide to the SDGs?

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

What is the Human Rights Guide to the SDGs?

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The Guide illustrates the human rights anchorage of the 17 goals and provides concrete links between the 169 targets and the range of human rights instruments and labour standards.

Thereby, the Guide reaffirms that human rights instruments and the 2030 Agenda are tied together in a mutually reinforcing way: human rights offer a legally-binding framework as well as guidance for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. In turn, the SDGs can contribute substantially to the realization of human rights.

How to use the Guide?

The Guide is the essential tool to:

  • Understand the interlinkages between human rights and the SDGs. Concretely, 156 of the 169 targets (more than 92%) are linked with human rights instruments and labour standards.
  • Develop a human rights-based approach to sustainable development programming, implementation as well as follow-up and review (monitoring, evaluation and reporting)

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Climate Change Vulnerability Mapping for Greater Mekong Sub-Region

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

01.02.2016

UNESCOBKK –  Thailand’s adaptive capacity to climate change is high among Mekong countries, while the western coastline of Myanmar and the Cambodian Mekong lowland region are the areas of the sub-region most vulnerable to the phenomenon’s effects.

These were among the key findings of the report, “Climate Change Vulnerability Mapping for the Mekong River Basin”, based on a study carried out by UNESCO Bangkok and the Water Resources and Environment Institute (WREI) of Khon Kaen University’s Faculty of Engineering in Thailand.

The study sought to identify the areas most vulnerable to climate change and climate-induced water problems in five Mekong countries: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. The study used a framework developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which conceptualizes vulnerability to climate change by looking at the exposure to and sensitivity of a system to a climate hazard and the ability of the system to cope with, adapt to or recover from the effects of hazardous conditions.

The study finds that Mekong countries are adversely affected by major natural hazards, such as tropical cyclones, floods and droughts. The study also mapped adaptive capacity and areas that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, which can be a useful tool for determining degrees of adaptation and mitigation responses at the provincial level. The findings of this study will be valuable for the five Mekong countries in ensuring sustainable adaptation to climate change.

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Climate Change Vulnerability Mapping for Greater Mekong Sub-Region
Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok; Khon Kaen: Water Resources & Environment Institute, Khon Kaenn University, 2015, 49p.

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There are 168 million victims of child labour – and we’re failing them

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này
Written by
Nina Smith, Executive Director, GoodWeave
Published
Thursday 31 March 2016

weforum – On a recent trip to India, I met a 12-year-old girl, Kushboo, in the village of Bhairupura, not far from Jaipur. Bhairupura is a village of the Raigar people, a scheduled caste who traditionally work in shoe-making. There’s nothing beyond the village but forest. Few outsiders visit Bhairupura, except for the agents working for the carpet manufacturers who operate modern factories in Jaipur.

Those factories are where international buyers are brought to tour. But many of their rugs are not produced at these locations. Rather, they are being made in villages like Bhairupura, by children like Kushboo – a cheap, captive and unseen workforce.

Millions of modern-day slaves

Most of us don’t imagine that the goods we buy with the label Made in India, or any number of other countries, are tainted by child or forced labour. But the International Labour Organization estimates that 168 million child labourers and 21 million forced labourers are toiling away in the global economy. We also know that many people work in informal sectors – sub-contracted production outside of factory settings – where exploitation is commonplace. Tiếp tục đọc “There are 168 million victims of child labour – and we’re failing them” →

CSIS – AMTI Brief – April 14, 2016

~ Trần Đình Hoành ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

East China Sea Tensions: Approaching a Slow Boil

 

Mounting tensions over the disputed Senkaku Islands have been a constant in Sino-Japanese relations since Tokyo purchased three of the five islands in 2012. For the last four years, Chinese coast guard vessels have regularly patrolled in the vicinity of the East China Sea islands and have often entered within the 12-nautical-mile territorial sea around the Senkakus, engaging in a cat-and-mouse game with their Japanese counterparts tasked with maintaining Tokyo’s control over the features. Meanwhile, People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) patrols around the Senkakus and Japan’s southern islands have led to regular scrambles by the Japanese Air Self Defense Force. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS – AMTI Brief – April 14, 2016” →

Sustainable Development Goals Can Transform Small-Scale Forestry

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

15 March 2016

Alison Hoare
Alison Hoare

Senior Research Fellow, Energy, Environment and Resources – Eleanor GloverWebsite and Digital Coordinator, Energy, Environment and Resources

Governments can use the SDG framework to combat illegality and increase sustainability in this important sector.
Girls look on as a logging truck disembarks from a ferry in the Amazonian state of Para, Brazil. Photo via Getty Images.Girls look on as a logging truck disembarks from a ferry in the Amazonian state of Para, Brazil. Photo via Getty Images.

chathamhouse Small- and medium-sized forestry enterprises (SMFEs) make up a large proportion of the forest sector, accounting for over half the timber production and supporting hundreds of thousands of livelihoods in developing countries − over 50 per cent of the forest sector workforce. But they often operate outside the realms of the law – making them difficult to monitor and control, and providing a window for corruption and poor management practices. Consequently, SMFEs are often seen as a problem to eliminate rather than an opportunity for sustainable development. However, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer an opportunity to change perceptions while also bringing more attention and resources to the small-scale sector. Tiếp tục đọc “Sustainable Development Goals Can Transform Small-Scale Forestry” →

Gender equality, the MDGs and the SDGs: Achievements, lessons and concerns

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này
Naila Kabeer

Professor of Gender and Development at the Gender Institute – London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

theIGC – Following the formal announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals, Naila Kabeer reflects on lessons from the Millennium Development Goals through a feminist lens, which she argues were weakened by their very narrow interpretation of women’s empowerment. She writes that much more is needed to dismantle more resilient structures of inequality, and while the SDGs offer some grounds for cautious optimism, there is a continued lack of emphasis on rights.

This post forms part of a cross-blog series on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development run by the IGC, Africa at LSE, and South Asia at LSE blogs. View more posts in this series. Tiếp tục đọc “Gender equality, the MDGs and the SDGs: Achievements, lessons and concerns” →

Trust Empirical View – Levels of Trust across Countries

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ 1 bình luận
ourworldindata – Levels of Trust by Country: ‘Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you need to be very careful in dealing with people?’ Possible Answers ‘Most people can be trusted’ or ‘Can’t be too careful’ – Max Roser1

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Correlates, Determinants & Consequences

Percentage of people who trust people in general vs GNP per capita – Beinhocker (2006)2

The Relationship Between Trust and Economic Performance – Beinhocker (2006)

Percentage of people expressing high level of trust in others (2008) vs. income inequality by Gini index (mid-2000s) – Max Roser3