Vietnam started a process of economic reform in 1986 and is presently opening up its economy to regional and global … economic forces. As a result, Vietnam faces significant challenges in the area of economic policy analysis. This paper reviews … insights emerging from a detailed social accounting matrix (SAM), compiled for the year 2000. The SAM reflects Vietnam’s heavy …

Party in 1986, Vietnam has experienced rapid growth and development through the transition from state to market. While de … the form of Small and Medium Enterprises(SME) has emerged as a strong agent for socio‐economic diversification. The Mekong … Delta, located in the Southwest of Vietnam, is a rural setting traditionally reliant on agriculture but has been facing …

survival and profit growth in Vietnam. Using an unbalanced panel dataset from 2005 to 2009, our study shows no difference in …

This paper analyzes China’s and Vietnam’s performance in reducing under-five child mortality in a comparative … the provision of key public services deteriorated. As a result, child mortality reduction in China and Vietnam was only … the relative status of women, which is better in Vietnam than in China. The other stems from the fact that the perverse …

China have attained high rates of economic growth. Export-led growth has taken over the status as model for developing … of Japan, the Tiger states and China with their respective strategies of industrial policy and export-led growth. Is …

The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has …. The South China Sea is defined as "Mediterranean." By comparing it to other maritime spaces, like the Baltic and the … from concepts of the cultural theory of Oswald Spengler. The paper will look at the South China Sea from two perspectives …

of the economic system in China. By using the theory of endogenous ownership arrangements developed in Tian (1995), a … three stage method of China’s economic reform will be provided. It will be shown that a smooth institutional transition to a …-owned enterprises will face large scale bankruptcy and privatization. The first stage began with rural economic reform in China in 1979 …

behaviour of the last 20 years in China. Six case studies of technological learning and links to external sources of know …-how from the South of China in the Pearl River Delta are examined. It is shown that the learning process that has been … South China lies in this ‘external’ interactive technological learning, as in other East Asian economies. …