DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND INVESTMENT

INTRODUCTION

  Department of Planning and Investment was established on November 29, 2014. The department was established to meet the training, research, and technology transfer needs in the field of Investment Economics with a team of well-trained, specialized, and experienced lecturers and researchers. In addition, the Department is also involved in teaching other subjects at undergraduate and post-graduate levels relating to Economics, Agricultural Economics, Digital Economics, Financial Economics, Management Economics, Rural Development, and Management and Development of Human Resources.

TRAINING

v Undergraduate courses:

-       Planning

-       Investment Economics

-       Bidding

-       Investment

-       Economics Research Methods

-       Management Science

-       Leadership and decision-making skills

v Post-graduate courses:

-       Advanced Management Science

-       Advanced Economics Research Methods

-       Advanced Management and Investment

-       Advanced Financial Economics

-       Advanced Leadership and decision-making skills

-       Advanced Planning 

v Training, consultancy service and technology transfer:

-       Programs and Projects Evaluation

-       Behavior Evaluation

-       Participatory Planning

-       Implementing Poverty Reduction Supportation 

-       Livelihood Development

-       Value Chain… 

RESEARCH

v Research focus

The Department's main research fields are agricultural economics, rural development, socio-economic development, and policy evaluation. In addition, the Department will expand the research field in the following directions:

-       Developing, evaluating, and appraising strategy and socio-economic development plan.

-       Attracting domestic and international investment.

-       Completion of planning.

-       Efficiency improvement of investment capital

-       Risk and risk management

-       State management of budget, tax, revenue – expenditure…

-       Supply chain and value chain of agricultural products

-       Human Resource Development

-       Agricultural and rural economy

-       Households, farms, cooperatives, businesses in agriculture, rural development.

-       Linkages in the production and consumption of agricultural products.

-       Agricultural products Market.

-       Assessment of the behaviour of the actors in agricultural production. 

v On-going projects

-       A feasibility study of the Emission Reduction Project in the Central Highlands and South Central Coast of Vietnam, which would contribute to achieving the objectives of the national REDD+ action program in Ninh Thuan province.

-       The project “Poverty Dynamics and Sustainable Development: A Long-term Panel Project in Thailand and Vietnam” (TVSEP) was funded by the Leibniz University Hannover.

-       Assess the current situation and propose solutions to develop concentrated herbal production areas according to the value chain in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam.

-       Solution of land accumulation and concentration for agricultural and aquaculture development towards large-scale goods in Namdinh province, Vietnam. 

v Completed projects

-       Basic solutions to sustainable poverty reduction in ethnic minorities and mountainous areas in Vietnam until 2030.

-       Solution to attract enterprises’ investment in high-tech agriculture of Hanoi city.

-       Solution to attract enterprises’ investment in the agriculture sector of Hoabinh province, Vietnam.

-       Evaluation of the graduation approach to Vietnam's child poverty reduction program.

-       Assessment of the current situation, proposing policies and solutions to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) in agricultural production and business (Ministerial-level project, Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development)

-       Research on the coping ability of the rural poor to the impact of natural disaster risk and socio-economic fluctuation (The State-level project).

-       Research on risk management policy for pig farming in Vietnam (Ministerial-level project, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development).

-       Solution to maintain criteria for communes meeting new rural standards in the period of 2014 – 2018 in Yenbai province.  

v Key international publications

-       Livestock production and income inequality in rural Vietnam, Empirical Economics 62 (2) (2022), 409-438; IF 1.9 (2023)

-       Indigenous pig production and welfare of ultra-poor ethnic minority households in the Northern mountains of Vietnam, Environment, Development and Sustainability 24 (1) (2022), 156-179. IF 4.7 (2023)

-       Health shocks and natural resource extraction: A Cambodian case study. Ecological Economics 169 (2020), 106517. IF 6.6 (2023). 

-       Livestock Production, Rural Poverty, and Perceived Shocks: Evidence from Panel Data for Vietnam. The Journal of Development Studies 55 (1) (2019), 99-119; IF 1.8 (2023).

-       Nonfarm employment and household food security: evidence from panel data for rural Cambodia. Food Security 11 (3) (2019), 703-718; IF 5.6 (2023).

-       Farm production efficiency and natural forest extraction: Evidence from Cambodia. Land Use Policy 71 (2018) 480 – 493; IF 6.0 (2023). 

DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

-       Central level: Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Finance…

-       Local level: People’s Committees of provinces/cities such as Hanoi, Bacninh, Namdinh, Hoabinh, Tuyenquang, Phutho…

-       National and international universities.

-       National and international non-government organisations: IRRI, SEARCA, PLAN INTERNATIONAL Vietnam, Save the Children, SNV, CARE, ADB, WB. 

STAFF

 In addition, the Department regularly contracts with visiting lecturers and researchers to support teaching, scientific research and technology transfer activities.

 Contact information:

Department of Planning and Investment,

Room 416, 4^th Floor, Bui Huy Dap Building, Vietnam National University of Agriculture.

Phone: (84-4) 6261 8486

Email: bmkhdt@gmail.com

Website: http://ktql.vnua.edu.vn