Health & Agricultural
Policy Research Institute

HAPRI presented the results of its three-year, ACIAR-funded study on food loss in the Mekong pangasius value chain at a stakeholder workshop in Long Xuyen on 5 May 2026, calling for a shift from low-cost competition toward sustainable value.

In the second part of a series that began with "The Silent Crisis of Higher Education," HAPRI Director Dr. Vo Tat Thang argues that reviving Vietnamese higher education requires reviving an ideal of the human being, not just a list of skills. A HAPRI English translation of his April 2026 essay in Tia Sang.

Vietnamese economist Lê Vĩnh Triển argues that small and medium enterprises are the capillaries of the national economy: small in scale but indispensable. The same logic that makes retail investors the trust base of capital markets makes SMEs the trust base of the economy itself. A HAPRI English translation of an op-ed published in Người Đô Thị, April 2026.

Vietnam's higher education faces a crisis not of resources but of direction. When we stop asking what education is for, the university drifts from forming human beings into distributing opportunities, and five quiet signs of erosion reveal the drift at work.

A study of 18 countries over 1990–2020 examines how governance, financial development, and economic growth shape environmental innovation across emerging and advanced markets using dynamic panel GMM models.

This study examines how different types of migration—short-term versus long-term, labor versus non-labor—affect household nutritional consumption in Vietnam, using panel data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey between 2016 and 2018.

This study analyzes the effects of economic structural transformation, ICT development, and their interaction on the ecological footprints of 104 countries during 2002–2019, revealing that while Internet use harms the environment in the short run, its long-run effect is environment-preserving.

The year 2025 concluded with significant milestones for the Health and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (HAPRI) in its role as a bridge between academia, policy, and practice. Going beyond academic publications, HAPRI has demonstrated the tangible impacts of research on people’s livelihoods, food security, and community health in Viet Nam.

Fintech innovations—particularly mobile money, digital wallets, and peer-to-peer (P2P) lending—are driving significant progress in financial access, especially in underserved regions.

For institutional reform to be successful, there must be a renewal of thinking regarding state power—the subject of institutional reform.