27 Dec 2025
In the context of increasingly deep economic integration, Vietnam's garment industry is facing significant competitive pressure from Chinese fashion products. With its price advantage, diverse designs, and suitability for young people's tastes, Chinese clothing quickly gained the interest of students – a customer group with high fashion needs but limited financial resources. Additionally, the mentality of valuing foreign goods still exists among a segment of consumers, making imported products more appealing and posing significant challenges for domestic garment businesses. Based on this reality, a research team from the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) implemented a study to analyze the impact of consumer ethnocentrism on students' intention to purchase Chinese clothing products in Ho Chi Minh City.
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04 Nov 2025
Modern social contexts expect businesses to operate with a higher sense of responsibility. Many large corporations have committed to annual corporate social responsibility (CSR), but its effectiveness is yet to be measured. Faced with this "problem," a team of student researchers from the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) conducted the research topic "Do CSR activities impact Gen Z's sustainable purchase intention and willingness to pay more?" Experimental Research in Vietnam" to clarify how CSR contributes to shaping brand trust, strengthening brand image and brand loyalty, and thereby influencing the sustainable consumption behavior of Gen Z in Vietnam.
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10 Oct 2025
Vietnamese people play a central role in both productive forces and relations of production, yet continue to face limitations in skills and ownership rights. The lack of synchronization between these two factors diminishes production efficiency and workers’ rights, necessitating the comprehensive development of Vietnamese people in the digital era. In Part 2 of the research study “The Decisive Role of Vietnamese People in Ensuring that Relations of Production Align with the Development of Productive Forces in the Nation’s New Era,” the UEH research team has proposed directions for innovating Vietnamese human development within relations of production and productive forces in the nation’s era of rising.
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09 Oct 2025
Modern social contexts expect businesses to operate with a higher sense of responsibility. Many large corporations have committed to annual corporate social responsibility (CSR), but its effectiveness is yet to be measured. Faced with this "problem," a team of student researchers from the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) conducted the research topic "Do CSR activities impact Gen Z's sustainable purchase intention and willingness to pay more?" Experimental Research in Vietnam" to clarify how CSR contributes to shaping brand trust, strengthening brand image and brand loyalty, and thereby influencing the sustainable consumption behavior of Gen Z in Vietnam.
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27 Mar 2025
Employing an empirical model, a research team from the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) explored the impact of tax incentives and other non-tax factors on the ability to attract FDI inflows in developing countries in Southeast Asia and discussed necessary adjustments in tax incentive policies to adapt to the context of applying global minimum tax rules in Vietnam. The study contributes to clarifying the role of tax policies and also provides a comprehensive view of solutions to attract FDI inflows and to promote economic development in the new context.
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19 Mar 2025
In the context that the global economy faces uncertainties like the consequences of the pandemics, natural disasters, and conflicts, the key economic Southeast region of Vietnam is facing major challenges in terms of institutions and resource efficiency. A recent study by a researcher from the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) has illustrated significant room for improving Total Factor Productivity (TFP), increasing the region’s GRDP by thousands of billions of VND each year. How can Southeast Vietnam not only recover but also break through to become a sustainable growth driver for the whole country? Let’s find out in the following article!
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