Suchergebnisse

In order to improve people's living standards (PLS), in addition to the economic growth, the regulation on distribution of economic growth results by the government plays a very important role. In recent years, the achievements of economic growth have contributed to improving the quality of people's lives; however, there have been many challenges that require the Government of Vietnam to take specific and appropriate measures to ensure both promotion of economic growth and improvement of people's living standards.

The political system of Vietnam follows the former Soviet style, which includes the following elements from central to local level: Party, State, Fatherland Front and mass organizations. This type of organizational structure has shown increasing limitations in the current context of an open economy and global integration. These need to be reformed and improved. While there are enormous challenges in this reform process, there are encouraging changes. Therefore, it is essential to renovate fundamental understanding on political system structure and induce the strong political will of the whole political system, particularly within the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). Based on the theoretical model of political will developed by Post et al. (2010), this study aims to test the assumption that the political system organizational restructuring and staff reduction process will be successful with strong political will and public support. The findings show that the on-going political system organizational process and staff reduction in Vietnam seems to be in line with the assumption. There are impressive initial achievements. These include: (i) elimination of three steering committees, seven directorates etc.; around 200 bureaus, departments etc., and 65 provincial departments; (ii) reduction of 50 directorate-level leading positions, more than 300 bureau and department-level leading positions, about 200 provincial department-level leading positions and about 10,000 division/office-level managers. Challenges are inertia within the system, hesitation and conflicts of interest among decision makers. Therefore, strong political will from the top level, common understanding and effort from all Party members and support from people, as well as effective solutions in the coming years, are all required.

The main purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the impact of the Supportive Program of Sustainable Poverty Reduction under the Government's Resolution No. 30a/2008/NQ-CP dated December 27, 2008 (SPSPR) carried out at Bac Ai poor district, Ninh Thuan province, Vietnam during the period 2009-2014. It is clearly known that this poverty reduction program has not been assessed the impact evaluation yet. Within the framework of this thesis, on the one hand, the study did a survey on thirty correspondents form provincial, district and commune organizations in Ninh Thuan province. Based on the correspondents' feedbacks, the study applied qualitative research method to analyze and verify the program's impact on poor households. On the other hand, the author collected 2005-2014 period data and relevant documents approved by the provincial and district authorities related to Bac Ai district's poverty reduction program. Those used quantitative research method to fortify the research results convincingly. In addition to assessing the effectiveness and impact of the seven poverty reduction policies on poor people in Bac Ai district, the study also analyzes strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats from practice and current poverty reduction policies to draw on findings and recommendations which will be taken into consideration for improvement on the poverty reduction program for Bac Ai district in the next phase. Last but not least, the final target of the study is truly to contribute research outcomes to the local authorities and local poor inhabitants for action to fight against long-lasting poverty in Bac Ai district. Afterwards, the poor themselves have to get out of poverty and rise to a medium and affluent life sustainable. At the same time, Bac Ai district will enhance its state management capacity in the field of poverty reduction and persuade the poor to raise their responsibility for escaping poverty so as to make Bac Ai's socio-economic development become better.