TAILIEUCHUNG - Vietnam’s Sustainable Development and the Role of Political Stability in Sustainable Development

Political stability plays an important role for sustainable development in Vietnam. The paper analyzes experiential lessons drawn by the Communist Party of Vietnam from the national socio-economic development in the recent years. The paper also provides an explanation of why political stability is seen as the premise and a necessary condition for sustainable development in Vietnam. | Vietnam’s Sustainable Development and the Role of Political Stability in Sustainable Development Pham Van Duc* Abstract: Political stability plays an important role for sustainable development in Vietnam. The paper analyzes experiential lessons drawn by the Communist Party of Vietnam from the national socio-economic development in the recent years. The paper also provides an explanation of why political stability is seen as the premise and a necessary condition for sustainable development in Vietnam. Key words: Vietnam, sustainable development, political stability. In Vietnam, sustainable development has been viewed as a strategic goal set by the government in the 1980s. Since then, the concept of sustainable development has changed in its connotation and has been increasingly supplemented with new contents. Regarding to the origin, the term “sustainable development” was initiated in the 1970s. After “the World Conservation Strategy” was published (in 1980), the term started to attract more attention from international development researchers as well as environmental ones. Afterwards, the concept of sustainable development was described in a range of publications such as “Our Common Future” (1987) and “Caring for the Earth” (1991). When talking about sustainable development, ones often use the definitions from the two above-mentioned publications. In the book “Our Common Future”, sustainable development is understood as a kind of development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In the meanwhile, sustainable development is defined in the book “Caring for the Earth” as a kind of development that provides real improvements in the quality of human life and at the same time conserves the vitality and diversity of the ecosystems. In general, both of the definitions consider sustainable development as to utilize sensibly natural resources and protect the environment so that .

• Chính trị học
• Vietnam’s Sustainable Development
• The Role of Political Stability
• Political Stability in Sustainable Development
• The Communist Party of Vietnam
• The national socio economic development
• economic policy
• agricultural projects
• agro forestry techniques
• livestock farming
• agribusiness
• increased sawlogs acacia
• acacia planting techniques
• Vietnams agriculture
• BMC Pediatrics
• National family health survey
• Concentration index
• Decomposition analysis
• Immunisation intensity
• Sustainable development goals