If You Build It, Will They Come? Our Hanoi Metro Experience
Proactive marketing and communications is helping ensure that Hanoi’s new metro provides a sustainable and profitable service.
Land Measurement Bias Revisited
Weak statistics and informal land area measurement techniques can distort agricultural policies, ADB research shows.
Creating Viet Nam's Digital Health Web
If everything goes according to plan, Viet Nam will become the first middle-income country in Asia to implement a nationwide standardized digital health system.
Connectivity, Competitiveness, Community Guide Mekong Regional Cooperation
Vice-President Stephen Groff shares his views on cooperation among Mekong countries from the 22nd GMS Ministerial Conference in Ha Noi, Viet Nam.
Plugging Viet Nam's Trade Finance Gap
Trade finance support can help the country achieve its goal of becoming an upper middle-income economy by 2030.
Why Preserving Urban Heritage Makes Economic Sense
Preserving urban heritage helps local industries develop, and provides income opportunities for citizens.
Innovation to Drive Viet Nam's Fourth Industrial Revolution
The country needs a more dynamic and innovative private sector, fueled by home-grown entrepreneurship.
Digital Health in Viet Nam – Not If, but When
The country is on the right path toward realizing the potential of digitization in its health sector.
Boosting Fuel Efficiency to Cut Motorcycle Pollution in Viet Nam
A package of comprehensive measures—inlcuding setting fuel efficiency standards—is the only way to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from motorcycles in the country's 5 main cities.
Viet Nam Must Escape Low Productivity, Low Value-Add Trap to Industrialize
In its quest to become an industrialized nation, Viet Nam must redouble efforts to improve the skills of the labor force and cultivate high-technology, high value-add industries.