Economic Reform in Vietnam

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Restructuring and Economic Reforms

   • Keith Griffin

   Pages 1-19

3. Integration into the Global Economy

   • Azizur Rahman Khan

   Pages 21-35

4. The Role of the State in the New Economy

   • Keith Griffin

   Pages 37-55

5. Investment in People and the Reform Process

   • Charles Perrings

   Pages 57-76

6. Vietnam’s Rural Economy: Performance and Prospects

   • Azizur Rahman Khan

   Pages 77-107

7. The Environmental Effects of Policy Reform in Vietnam

   • Charles Perrings

   Pages 109-156

8. Capability Poverty in Vietnam

   • Terry McKinley

   Pages 157-174

9. Back Matter

   Pages 175-201

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Vietnam, along with China, stands out as a rare success story among transition economics. This authoritative study of the reform process since 1989 pays particular attention to the way the macroeconomics framework can contribute to an environment that encourages human development and helps to reduce poverty. Thus there are chapters on macroeconomics reforms, international trade policies, the role of the state, rural development, education and health, environmental issues and poverty and gender inequality. Although areas of weakness are indicated, emphasis is placed on the success Vietnam has experienced compared to other transition economies. The lessons of both the successes and failures of the reform process for policymakers elsewhere are outlined.

• China
• development
• macroeconomics
• reforms
• Rural Development
• transition
• transition economics

• University of California, Riverside, USA

  Keith Griffin

AZIZUR RAHMAN KHAN Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside TERRY MCKINLEY Macroeconomic adviser specializing on poverty, Social Development and Poverty Elimination Division, United Nations Development Programme, New York CHARLES PERRINGS Professor of Environmental Economics and Environmental Management, University of York

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