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Vietnam: 2007 retrospective For contents and listed contributors see here. And to pay go here.
Labour Market Transformation in Vietnam: an introduction and overview. For contents see here. And to pay go here.
The following paper is available on request - send an Email to adam@aduki.com.au and I will send a copy to that Email address
Commentary # 1 2007 - Vietnam: politics and puzzles in mid 2007 (double-click here and you will access the first pages). For the rest, contact the Editor.
This puts together some ideas from various sources on what is happening as of mid 2007.
It includes:
Editor’s Notes, Adam Fforde
And two reviews. The first, by Gerhard Will of the SWP in Berlin, looks at the Xth Congress of 2006 and raises some central questions.
The second, by Bill Hayton, BBC Correspondent in Hanoi until early 2007, looks at events since the Congress.
My public domain research output comes under three headings: aid consultancy, commercial and academic. The first and last, produced using tax payers' money, are distributed in ADOBE *.pdf format. The software for reading these papers is available at the ADOBE website: www.adobe.com.
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The following papers are available for distribution in ADOBE format.
2005
Instability, the causes of development success and the need for strategic rethinking
A paper written to reflect on the situation in Vietnam in the mid 2000s, and the far higher degree of risk present than is often believed.
Vietnam's successful turnaround and the intentionality issue
This is a paper commissioned by the World Bank as part of their LINCUS project. Due to failure to meet agreement on content, mainly to do with the intentionality issue, the paper was not accepted by the Bank.
2003
Reflections on extension and its organisation in Vietnam
A paper worked up from a presentation I made in North Vietnam in 2003. Reflects on the tensions inherent in trying to use existing structures to support a wide range of social and economic groups, and the general failure to escape from essentially conservative methods.
2001-2
This report is based upon survey work in 3 provinces carried out in 1998-99. It is a 'scoping' study, rather than a strict academic analysis. It shows that the 'new-style' cooperatives were largely imposed, and that farmers' own cooperative groups can be a positive and dynamic contributor to rural institutional change. We are grateful to Sida for financial support. The Vietnamese end-user was the Policy Department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hanoi. Province were: Long An, Quang Tri and Ninh Binh.
Authors: Adam Fforde and Nguyen Dinh Huan (CERUDEV/NISTPASS/MOSTE).
The study is also available in Vietnamese.
Author: Adam Fforde.
Please note that this is a consultancy report, commissioned by SIDA. Note also that a large database was created.
Poverty in Vietnam - study for Sida, 1995, pointing the ways in which definitions of poverty were being made so as to link them to certain forms of intervention, thus avoiding addressing underlying socio-economic issues. This was despite that fact that the Party's own research had looked at in the late 1980s, conveniently (in terms of donor disbursement priorities) then forgotten by much of the donor community's public research, keen to use existing formal structures as channels for aid. This laid the foundations for the medium term strategies still evident in the mid 2000s.
Reforms in Laos - study for Sida, mid 1990s.
Free monthly newsletter covers general economic conditions and occasional topics of interest. Contact me at adam@aduki.com.au to be put on the distribution list. Re-started Jan 2006.
The following papers are available for distribution in ADOBE format.
2005
My presentations at the Berlin Conference organised by the Boell Foundation on Civic association in SEA. I looked at two issues - Farmers' Organisations and the general question of the emergence of signs of civil society in Vietnam. The latter argued that the frequent reference to change processes in Vietnam as being 'bottom-up' was often confused, as this frequently corresponded, not to an emergent civil society, but a 'proto-civil society' on the margin of Leninist institutions. The conference materials can be downloaded from http://www.boell.de/downloads/asien/Towards-6.pdf
Persuasion: Reflections on Economics, Data and the ‘Homogeneity Assumption’
Final version of paper published in Journal of Economic Methodology, early 2005
2004
‘State owned enterprises, law and a decade of market-oriented socialist development in Vietnam’ Working Paper Series # 70 September 2004 SEARC City University of Hong Kong. http://www.cityu.edu.hk/searc/WP70_04_Fforde.pdf
‘Vietnamese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) - “Real Property”, Commercial Performance and Political Economy’ Working Paper Series # 69 August 2004 SEARC City University of Hong Kong. http://www.cityu.edu.hk/searc/WP69_04_Fforde.pdf
2002
Paper for the VIETNAM UPDATE 2001: Governance in Vietnam: The Role of Organizations ANU/ISEAS, November 2001. Revised 2002.
2001
Paper given at ADB Manila, 2001. Later revised. Shorter version in Journal of Economic Methodology: ‘Persuasion: Reflections on Economics, Data and the ‘Homogeneity Assumption’, Journal of Economic Methodology, 12:1, 63-91, March 2005.
Work in progress.
1998
ANU Seminar Paper
1995
‘Public goods, the state, civil society and development assistance in Vietnam’, with Doug Porter
Paper for the 1995 ANU Vietnam Update Conference