Looks at agrarian reforms and the impact they have had on the performance of the Vietnamese economy. Covers the period from 1980 to 1996.

Conflicts following from rural credit indebt ness and excessive concentration of land ownership have been dealt by the central executi-ve ofï¬ce without the intermediation of local farmers organization and social movements. The political representation of these interests in Con-gress and...

The study examines the development of the agricultural sector in 1994, the land reform, the foreign trade of agricultural goods, and government policies which support the sector. Attention is paid to the relative prices and domestic terms of trade in the agriculture. The document examines also...