AbstractsEconomics

This thesis deals with the government funded development cooperation between Finland and Vietnam. Vietnam has long been one of Finland's bilateral development cooperation partners. The purpose of this thesis is to determine the optimum future form of development cooperation that exploits the strengths of both parties and which can be of mutual benefit. The thesis will also examine whether the development cooperation can be commercial in the future. The first section, concerning global poverty, will focus on dealing with the concepts of poverty, the causes and consequences of poverty, as well as the current state of poverty. The second section, concerning development cooperation will examine the concept of development cooperation, the objectives and results of development cooperation as well as criticize the impact of the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on global poverty and development. This section will also identify the different phases and results of Finland's development cooperation. The third part of the thesis focuses on combining the first and second sections into cooperation between Finland and Vietnam. The beginning of the section will introduce a brief history of Vietnam, Vietnam’s economic situation as well as the current situation. At the end of the section, the phases, objectives and results of the development cooperation between Finland and Vietnam will be examined and the future objectives within financial resources will be sorted out. In this section, the strengths and weaknesses of Finnish development cooperation in Vietnam will be studied also, with the help of SWOT analysis. The thesis research results indicate that the forms of Finnish development cooperation have changed over the last 40 years, from individual and massive projects to partnerships supporting the sustainable development of the host country. When financial aid changes to development cooperation between two countries the partnership enables mutual benefit. When the destination country reaches a certain economic level, the development cooperation can be changed into a commercial direction in which the companies, institutions and other organizations of the helping country and the target country work together.; Tämä opinnäytetyö käsittelee Suomen ja Vietnamin välistä valtion tukemaa kehitysyhteistyötä. Vietnam on pitkään ollut yksi Suomen kahdenkeskisistä kehitysyhteistyökumppaneista. Opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena on selvittää tulevaisuuden kannalta paras mahdollinen kehitysyhteistyömuoto, joka hyödyntää molempien osapuolien vahvuuksia ja josta saadaan molemminpuolinen hyöty. Opinnäytetyö tutkii myös voiko kehitysyhteistyö olla tulevaisuudessa kaupallista. Ensimmäisessä, globaalia köyhyyttä koskevassa osiossa keskitytään käsittelemään köyhyyden käsitettä, köyhyyden syitä ja seurauksia sekä köyhyyden nykytilaa. Toisessa, kehitysyhteistyötä koskevassa osiossa tutkitaan kehitysyhteistyön käsitettä, kehitysyhteistyön tavoitteita ja tuloksia sekä kritisoidaan Maailman kauppajärjestön, Maailman…