Bøger af Huy Nguyen

Ha and Phuong are best friends in high school. But they took different paths in life after college and both are successful. One day, Phuong found out Ha was having an affair with her husband. After the divorce, Phuong tried really hard to move on and she found a new love in her life, Hoa,but she did not know whether she should be in love with him or not because he was younger thanher. With Ha, she had her own problem with her life where her husband's family was strict withher and her husband and her mother-in-law hated her. It led her to have an affair with Adam,Phuong's husband, who Ha truly loved. Two women with different stories, they both hadstruggles in their lives and this is their story.

During Vietnam¿s thirty years of economic growth since 1986, government policies have been central in raising rice production and export. However, the relevance of the ¿rice first¿ policy and the place of smallholder agriculture have recently been questioned in the discussion on Vietnam¿s agricultural development strategy. The objective of this book is to contribute to designing appropriate agricultural development strategies for Vietnam, based on empirical analysis at the farm household level. In light of increasing rural wages and structural change, Vietnam¿s agricultural transformation replicates the early East Asian experience, characterised by the dominance of smallholder agriculture. There has so far been no definitive policy resolution of the optimal structure of Vietnam¿s smallholder agriculture. The balance between efficiency and equity, between lowering production costs and raising prices, is a challenge for policy makers. The findings suggest policies for maintaining the comparative advantage of agriculture. The government should relax the ¿rice first¿ policy to improve household welfare. In addition, land reforms responding to less labour-intensive farming,