Property Rights and Land Law in Vietnam
From: <rowens@uga.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:22 PM
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Hi VSG,
I am interested in resources on property rights and land laws in Vietnam. For instance, are laws based on french or Chinese land laws or some other legal foundation. Currently, the State owns land in Vietnam, but what about foreign investments? Do they own property in Vietnam? When I was living in Taiwan, I understood that Nationals were required to own 51% of a company, are there similar rules in Vietnam? Any help or information directing me to people or articles would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Richard Owens, doctoral student
Department of Anthropology
Baldwin Hall
University of Georgia
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From: Danielle Labbe <dlabbe@interchange.ubc.ca>
Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:38 PM
To: rowens@uga.edu
Cc: vsg@u.washington.edu
Dear Richard,
Here are a few titles that might help in your exploration of the very complex (and rapidly changing) question of land ownership in Vietnam. I would be most happy if you could share the results of your inquiry for info on this topic.
- AusAID (2000). Vietnam: Land Administration. Working Paper no. 4. Canberra, The Australian Government's Overseas Aid Program.
- Pham Khan Toan (2001). Land administration for urban development in Vietnam. Symposium on the institutional arrangement for urban planning and development in Vietnam and Japan, Hanoi.
- Kim, A. M. (2004). "A market without the 'right' property rights: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's newly-emerged private real estate market." Economics of Transition 12(2): 275-305.
- Gillepsie, J. (1998). "Land Law Subsystems? Urban Vietnam as a Case Study." Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 7(3): 555-610.
- Pandolfi, L. (2001). Une terre sans prix: Réforme foncière et urbanisation au Viêt-Nam, Hanoi, 1986-2000. Paris, IFU/Paris 8 (unpublished PhD dissertation).
Danielle Labbé, PhD candidate
School of Community and Regional Planning
University of British-Columbia
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From: Ben Kerkvliet <ben.kerkvliet@anu.edu.au>
Date: Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:55 PM
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Folks might find useful John Gillespie's /Transplanting Commercial Law Reform/ (Ashgate, 2006) and David Koh's /Wards of Hanoi/ (Inst. of SEAsian Studies, Singapore, 2006). For background on 1990s land laws, see Kerkvliet, /Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy/ (Cornell Univ Press, 2005).
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Ben Kerkvliet
Emeritus Professor
Dept. of Political and Social Change
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia