DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND INVESTMENT
INTRODUCTION
Department of Planning and Investment was established on November 29, 2014. The department was established on the basis of meeting the needs of training, research and technology transfer 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 level relating to: Economics, Agricultural Economics, Financial Economics, Management Economics, Rural Development, and Management and Development Human Resources.
TRAINING
v Undergraduate courses:
- Planning
- Investment Economics
- Bidding
- Economics Research Methods
- Management Science
- Leadership and decision-making
v Post-graduate courses:
- Management Science
- Economics Research Methods
- Management and Investment
- Leadership and decision-making skills
- 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 main research fields of the Department are: agricultural economics, rural development, socio-economic development, policy evaluation. In addition, the Department will expand the research field in following directions:
- Developing, evaluating, appraising strategy, socio-economics development plan.
- Attracting domestic and international investment in agriculture and rural development.
- Completion of planning.
- Efficiency improvement of investment capital
- Risk and risk management in agriculture
- 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 field of agriculture, rural development.
- Linkages in the production and consumption of agricultural products.
- Agricultural products Market.
- Assessment of the behavior of the actors in agricultural production.
v On-going projects
- Assess the current situation, 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 minority 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 agriculture sector of Hoabinh province, Vietnam.
- Evaluation of the graduation approach to child poverty reduction program in Vietnam.
- 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
- Indigenous pig production and welfare of ultra-poor ethnic minority households in the Northern Mountains of Vietnam. Environment, Sustainability and Development (2021). IF 3.118.
- Impact of government intervention to maize efficiency at farmer's level across time: A robust evidence in Northern Vietnam. Environment, Development and Sustainability (2021). IF 3.118.
- Farm production efficiency and natural forest extraction: Evidence from Cambodia. Land Use Policy 71 (2018) 480 – 493; IF 3.682.
- Livestock Production, Rural Poverty, and Perceived Shocks: Evidence from Panel Data for Vietnam. The Journal of Development Studies 55 (1) (2019), 99-119; IF 1.596.
- Nonfarm employment and household food security: evidence from panel data for rural Cambodia. Food Security 11 (3) (2019), 703-718; IF 2.095.
- Health shocks and natural resource extraction: A Cambodian case study. Ecological Economics 169 (2020), 106517. IF 4.482.
- Modeling farmers' decisions on tea varieties in Vietnam: a multinomial logit analysis. Agricultural Economics (2017). IF 2.263.
- Does cattle production contribute to improving welfare of poor ethnic minority households in Central Vietnam? Livestock Research for Rural Development (2020). SCOPUS.
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 organizations: IRRI, SEARCA, PLAN INTERNATIONAL Vietnam, Save the Children, SNV, CARE, ADB, WB.
STAFF
No.
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Full name
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Academic title
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Training institution of the highest academic degree
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Position
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Email
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1
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Nguyen Tuan Son
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Associate Professor
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University of the Philippines
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Head – Department of Planning and Investment
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nguyentuanson@vnua.edu.vn
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2
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Nguyen Thi Minh Thu
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Ph.D
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Vietnam National University of Agriculture
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Deputy Head – Department of Planning and Investment
Senior lecturer and researcher
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Ntmthu@vnua.edu.vn
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3
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Tran Dinh Thao
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Associate Professor
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Vietnam National University of Agriculture
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Director - Institute of Economy and Development
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Thaoktl@vnua.edu.vn
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4
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Do Truong Lam
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Ph.D
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Hannover University, Germany
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Senior lecturer and researcher
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Dotruonglam@gmail.com
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5
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Ho Ngoc Ninh
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Ph.D
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University of the Philippines
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Senior lecturer and researcher
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hnninh@vnua.edu.vn
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6
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Tran Huong Giang
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MS
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Antwerp University, Belgium
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Lecturer, researcher
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Giangtran91@gmail.com
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7
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Vu Thi Thu Huong
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MS
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Kyushu University, Japan
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Lecturer, researcher
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Huongvuhuong@gmail.com
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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, 4th Floor, Administration Building, Vietnam National University of Agriculture.
Phone: (84-4) 6261 8486
Email: bmkhdt@gmail.com
Website: http://ktptnt.vnua.edu.vn