Introduction -- Opening of the Vietnamese economy: Achievements and challenges -- Public administration reform: Efforts and reality -- From state to market: Evolving ownership and corporate governance in Vietnam -- Labour and special economic zones -- Vietnamese political economy in an East...

Papers presented at National Seminar on "BIMSTEC: Towards a Bay of Bengal Economic Community", held at Vishakhapatnam, India in 2005; articles chiefly with reference to the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral Techno-Economic Cooperation, a combined initiative of South and Southeast Asian...