This is the first of a three-part series looking at Vietnam as it evolved from a poverty-stricken postwar country into the tourist destination it is today. A recent trip to Vietnam, and especially ...

Among our stops: Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hoi An and Hue. We skipped Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest city and its financial hub -- still called Saigon by most Vietnamese -- because we figured one ...

The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) measures how individual circumstances (i.e., characteristics -- such as place of residence, gender, and education of the household head -- that should not determine ...