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Reaching for the Dream
Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam

edited by Melanie Beresford & Tran Ngoc Angie

  • Offers a unique and comprehensive analysis of the double transition in Vietnam, from central planning and from under-development.

  • Written from both macro and micro perspectives using concrete case studies.

  • One of the few studies dealing with the issue of longer-term sustainability of the high growth rates and improved living standards that characterized Vietnam in the 1990s.

Transition economies allow the study of fundamental questions about the nature of markets. How do they arise and do they necessarily follow the same modus operandi as markets in other countries? How does the state influence the development of markets? How does the opening of the economy to global market influences affect the process of institutional change? How do people respond to both internal and external influences? And how in the context of an underdeveloped transitional economy like Vietnam, do such influences affect the prospects for sustainable and equitable development? This book focuses on the differentiated ways in which the double transition in Vietnam, from central planning and from under-development, affects various sectors of the population.

Contents
List of Figures
Appendices to Chapter Seven
List of Tables
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction by Melanie Beresford and Tran Ngoc Angie
Stages on the Road to Renovation of the Vietnamese Economy: an Historical Perspective by Dang Phong
Lessons from the Asian Crisis for the Sustainability of Vietnamese Economic Development by Melanie Beresford
The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labour Market by Regina
Abrami and Nolwen Henaff
Linking Growth with Equity? The Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries since Doi Moi by Tran Ngoc Angie
Rural Diversification: An Essential Path to Sustainable Developmnt for Vietnam by Bui Van Hung
Financial Markets in Vietnam’s Northern Highlands by William Smith
Institutional Challenges for Sustainable Development in Vietnam: the Case of the Coal Mining Sector by Bach Tan Sinh
Index

Published by NIAS Press, NIAS Studies in Asian Topics # 33
Published 2004, 302 pp., illus.
ISBN 978 87 91114 19 9, hardback, £45.00
ISBN 978 87 91114 48 9, paperback, £16.99