Foreign Trade University (FTU) with the support from the Global Development Network (GDN) is organizing A Regional Capacity Building Training Program: Analyzing Impacts of Climate Change on Agricultural Production using the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model in Vietnam.
The program aims to equip regional researchers and lecturers with knowledge and skills on mastering and applying the CGE model in analyzing impacts of climate change on agricultural production. To deal with climate change, capacity building at both national and regional levels and international collaboration are essential. In developing countries, the agriculture is the most vulnerable sector because of government’s limited resources and capacities to cope with negative impacts of climate change. Finding ways to promote agricultural production has, thus, been given high priority on the development agenda of governments. As a result, providing rigorous evidence of the impacts of climate change on agricultural production is urgently needed. CGE model is proved to be especially suited for this purpose.
Another focus of the program is to build-up a network of regional researchers and lecturers for further research collaboration in the field. As an outcome of the program, a Network of Researchers and Policy Makers on Environment and Economic Development is expected to be established. The network is to provide a platform for researchers and policy makers to collaborate in applying for research funding from various sources and jointly conduct national and regional studies in the field.
Dr. Pham Thi Lan Huong has been working for the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), the most influential think-tank in Vietnam for her whole 31-year public servant life (1981-2012). She has obtained Ph.D. degree in economics at the Australian National University (ANU), Australia, which has been among the top 20 universities in the world. Her research fields include trade policy, public expenditure, income distribution and poverty, labour and employment, agricultural and rural development issues, result-based review of socio-economic development plans, and computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling. She has been working as team leader, resource person, supervisor, trainer, lecturer, member of Policy Advisory Group of Ministry of Finance (MOF), and representative of Vietnam in the Economic Committee of APEC. She has been a principal researcher in many research studies commissioned by Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), MOF, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Labour, invalid and Social Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development (MARD). She has conducted various studies for international organisations such as One UN, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), ILO, World Bank, DANIDA, ADB, JBIC, EADN and EU. Since 2012 she has been working as an independent consultant.