Development and Policies Research Center (Depocen)

On the cutting edge of social-economic transitioning, Vietnam is very much in need of seeking integrated momentum with gas fueled from triangle co-operation government-research & innovation centers-enterprises. In that light, Depocen is one of the pioneers in the field offering standard observation, analysis toward sound policy recommendations with our combined strength of Westerned educated talents and comprehensive understanding on Vietnamese and regional context.

Given the fellows experiences from both public and private sectors as well as the diversity of their majors from trade to youth and employment and other development apsects, Depocen very much facilitates data collection and analysis with cost and time efficiency. Beyond consulting services, professional staff in other NGOs and research center could employ Depocen expertise to perform their own interested research with our research guidelines and introductory courses.

• At DEPOCEN we maintain an extensive network of collaborators who work in the industry, education sectors, international NGOs, research institutes and various governmental agencies. We have been consulting for both the industry and several government agencies.
• Members of our center have been advising the industry and several ministries in the following issues
  • Economic and policy consultancy
  • Statistical consultancy
  • Business consultancy
  • Research consultancy
• DEPOCEN provides statistical help for both academic and business research. The Center has worked on many projects with the industry, the academic research community and government agencies. We get questions that can be answered on the spot and harder research questions that can take months or even years of collaboration between the Center staff and other researchers. Our statistical consulting efforts have resulted in many fruitful research collaboration and significant research outputs.