This article examines the domestic and external factors that facilitated the implementation of economic reforms and export-oriented industrialization (EOI) in Vietnam, and seeks to investigate why the comparable policies of nine selected African countries (Angola, Benin, Congo-Brazzaville,...

Although the current corruption in North Korea is keeping potential resistance and social disruptions under control, it may not be beneficial for North Korea’s economic development in the long-term. The most important reason is that the bribery, which is part of a daily life in North Korea, is...