“The Anthropological Approach in Ethnic Business in Vietnam”: A New Viewpoint in Construction and Implementation of Policies

Abstract

Vietnam is considered as one of the leading States in the field of poverty reduction but its ethnic minorities still have suffered from many economic and social disadvantages. The management agencies as well as developmental organizations have considered carefully a new approach, which emphasizes the role of the developmental subjects, meaning residents, and the diversity in developmental process. The anthropologial approach in construction an implementation of ethnic policies is a new tendency of the Committee of Ethnic Minority Affairs. From the angle of respect for ethnic cultural diversity, the anthropological approach awakes the development of natural resource of community, makes contribution to minimization of limitations of top-down and imposed policies. The approach from anthropological angle also helps the policy makers in their localities become flexible and creative ones in deployment of policies suitable to the natural condition and the cultural features of local people. By doing so, they can assess in full, correctly the effectiveness of policies.