Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This … success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also … long-term sustainability without jeopardizing security of supply for the fast-growing economy. Vietnam's 2004 Electricity …

newspaper articles in 28 languages. The paper shows that the intensity of reform chatter increases during economic downturns … relationship to be causal. The paper also documents that reform chatter is followed by actual reforms, suggesting that democracies … benefit from a "self-correcting" mechanism stemming from changing popular attitudes toward reform …

one- and two-year lags between media coverage and reform implementation. To achieve this objective, the study put together … reform. Second, countries with greater media coverage of Doing Business indicators tend to have higher numbers of implemented …