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The primary social issues in Vietnam are rural and child poverty. Vietnam scores 37.6 in the Gini coefficient index of wealth inequality, with the top 10% accounting for 30.2% of the nation's income and the bottom 10% receiving 3.2%. In 2008, 14% of the population lived below the national poverty line of US$1.15 per day.
Temu, owned by Chinese e-commerce giant PDD Holdings, started allowing shoppers from Vietnam in October, while fast fashion retailer Shein has been selling into Vietnam for at least two years.
Environmental issues relating to free trade: Vietnam is committed to multilateral environmental agreements, including those on climate change and biodiversity, [40] including the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement and Investment Protection Agreement. To comply with these commitments, Vietnam would need strengthen regulations and enforcement on the ...
De jure, the article 43 of the constitution of Vietnam includes a right to a healthy environment. [9] The state is obliged to "…protect the environment; manage, and effectively and stably use natural resources; protect nature and biodiversity; take initiative in prevention and resistance against natural calamities; and respond to climate change."
Vietnam's stock market has fallen by more than 20% while the dong currency has lost 6% against dollar over the past three months. "It's getting more difficult to manage the macro economy," Chinh said.
Russia and Vietnam signed agreements on issues including energy, underlining Moscow's pivot to Asia after the West imposed sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict.
Corruption is a very significant problem in Vietnam, impacting all aspects of administration, education and law enforcement. Vietnam is an authoritarian one-party state under the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). In 2015, the party claimed that corruption had moved up the political agenda, and the legal framework for tackling corruption had ...
During the Vietnam protests, one might have seen a counter-protester calling demonstrators commies. By the 1970s, most Americans opposed the war (though an awful lot also opposed the protests ...