Vietnam's Development Strategies

The book presents a critical review of the Vietnamese doi moi and reasses the development of the country in the framework of the wider East Asian experience. This text covers the period before and immediately after the East Asian economic crisis and discusses why Vietnam has been particulry resilient during this traumatic period – and actually has continued to rapidly reduce poverty levels. The major sources of inspiration for the Vietnamese reform process – the Post-Washington readjusted neoliberal agenda, the East Asian developmental state model and the socialist market economy – are analysed, discussing their respective influnce in determining the Vietnamese economic policy in the period from 1989 to 2006.