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Development State in Vietnam
Development State in Vietnam
From pietro@ruc.dk Mon Nov 26 17:13:50 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:41:33 +0200
From: Pietro P. Masina <pietro@ruc.dk>
Reply-To: vsg@u.washington.edu
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Developmental state in Vietnam?
Dear list-members,
Does anybody know about recent studies on Vietnam with a 'developmental state' angle (as in Robert Wade, Alice Amsden, Linda Weiss, Peter Evans, etc.)?
I am looking at how the 'developmental state' model adopted by other countries such as South Korea and Taiwan is interpreted in the post regional crisis Vietnamese development strategies.
The kind of questions I am interested in (and on which I would appreciate any form of feedback) are the following:
1) Does the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) play a role in directing industrial strategies? That is, does the MPI promote specific industrial sectors due to their strategic importance? (Does the MPI play a role which could be compared with the Japanese MITI?).
2) What is the relation between MPI, the Office of the Prime minister, the Ministry of Industry and other government organisations in shaping strategic industrial policies?
3) Does strategic industrial policy matter in the process of SOEs reform? That is, there is any visible hint that the government protects specific enterprises on the basis of national industrial strategies (rather than for other considerations of political, social or other origin)?
4) Does the existing trade regime support strategic industrial policy or simply attempts to guarantee a generic protection for national infantry industry? And how this is meant to change with the implementation of AFTA and the Trade Agreement with the US?
5) Do loans from state owned banks to state owned enterprises reflect any kind of industrial policy (i.e., definition of strategic priorities)?
Thanks
Pietro P. Masina
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From usindo@igc.org Mon Nov 26 17:17:27 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:25:15 -0400
From: Fund for Reconciliation and Development <usindo@igc.org>
Reply-To: vsg@u.washington.edu
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Developmental state in Vietnam?
I am not aware of any recent "developmental state" studies on Vietnam. It may, however, be something that Jonathan Stromseth, who is the Asia Foundation rep in Vietnam, might be aware of.
MPI does certainly play a key role in the planning of what industries should be promoted in Vietnam, and works with the Ministry of Finance, OPM and Ministry of Industry on incentives and strategy. However, it is not completely parallel to MITI, as the ideological concerns over SOEs do not always jibe with strategic economic interests.
More specifics may be available from the Netherlands MBA program for Vietnamese which seems to be focusing on these types of issues, and has a good website, who's address, of course, I can't remember.
Good luck.
Tara McAuliff
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From OJHM.Salemink@scw.vu.nl Mon Nov 26 17:17:35 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:48:45 +0100
From: Oscar Salemink <OJHM.Salemink@scw.vu.nl>
Reply-To: vsg@u.washington.edu
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Developmental state in Vietnam?
Oscar Salemink
Department of Cultural Anthropology & Sociology of Development
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081c
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: (+31)(0)20-444 6712 / 6704
Fax: (+31)(0)20-444 6722
E-mail: O.Salemink@scw.vu.nl
From weitzel@undp.org.vn Mon Nov 26 17:17:51 2001
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:43:33 +0700
From: Vern Weitzel <weitzel@undp.org.vn>
Reply-To: vsg@u.washington.edu
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Developmental state in Vietnam?
You might look at the documents from the formulation of the 10 year strategy for viet Nam, produced by MPI:
http://www.undp.org.vn/projects/vie99002/index.htm
Also, the Viet Nam National Human Development Report is due to be published next Month.
cheers, Vern
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