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This paper assesses SDGs performance and distance to the 2030 targets for accelerating progress in Vietnam. Our assessment is conducted on Vietnam’s implementation of the complementarities between the ASEAN Vision and the UN Agenda. We find that Vietnam is on track to achieve the targets in the areas of poverty eradication as well as connectivity and infrastructure enhancement. However, our analysis shows top gaps related to insufficient resilience capacity, inefficient material use, and acute environmental impact. In addition, the COVID-19 crisis has undermined many of the achievements and prospects of the country on certain SDGs. In order to close the gaps in the coming decade, Vietnam will need to aggressively make focused efforts. We propose that the best way is to target efforts on fundamental institutional reform and growth paradigm transformation. Accordingly, the stakeholder approach must be valued over the whole-of-political-system approach and shifting the growth paradigm from the factor-based to the efficiency-driven cannot be postponed.
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The 17 global SDGs were set in the National Action Plan (NAP) for Implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Specifically, the NAP localized global goals in order to include 115 specific targets that reflect 150 out of 169 global targets. The unselected targets are considered as unsuitable to Vietnam’s development context and priorities.
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The ASEAN plus includes its 10 member nations and 3 East Asian nations of China , Japan, and Korea. The RCEP is a proposed free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region between the ASEAN and 6 countries – Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, and New Zealand – with which the ASEAN has free trade agreements.
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Absolute extreme poverty is the poverty rate based on the international income poverty threshold of US$1.90 a day (2011 PPP).
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Relative national poverty is measured by the difference between the individual income and the mean income of the population.
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Relative rural poverty is measured similarly to national relative poverty.
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(Total) material footprint represents the amount of raw materials used for domestic consumption of a country.
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This indicator measures all materials of economic value that are used in consumption and production activities.
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Nguyen, X.L., Kalirajan, K. (2022). Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets in Vietnam. In: Anbumozhi, V., Kalirajan, K., Kimura, F. (eds) Sustainable Development Goals and Pandemic Planning. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6734-3_10
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