Economic and environmental dynamics of reform in Vietnam

Asian Survey

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 601-616

  Sikor, Thomas O ^a   O'Rourke, Dara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; RESOURCE USE; STRUCTURAL REFORM;

VIETNAM;

EID: 0030460838     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.1996.36.6.01p0143m     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Tran Hoang Kim, Economy of Vietnam: Review and Statistics (Hanoi: Statistical Publishing House, 1994).
2. Vo Nhan Tri, Vietnam's Economic Policy Since 1975 (Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 1990).
3. See Adam Fforde, Industrial Development in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Birbeck College, University of London, 1986; Melanie Beresford and Lyn Frasier, "Political Economy of the Environment in Vietnam," Journal of Contemporary Asia, 22:1 (1992).
4. See Adam Fforde, Industrial Development in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Birbeck College, University of London, 1986; Melanie Beresford and Lyn Frasier, "Political Economy of the Environment in Vietnam," Journal of Contemporary Asia, 22:1 (1992).
5. Adam McCarty, "Industrial Renovation in Vietnam," in Mya Than and Joseph Tan, eds., Vietnam's Dilemmas and Options (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993), p. 108.
6. For instance, Dinh Van Sam, "Tong Quan Ve Cong Nghiep va Moi Truong," [Overview of industry and environment], National Research Program on the Environment, Report KT-02-06, Hanoi (in Vietnamese).
7. Dinh Van Thung and Le Van Trinh, "Assessment of the Present Pollution in the Working Environment in Vietnam and Overall Proposals to Solve the Problem," unpublished manuscript, 1993.
8. Law on Environmental Protection, National Political Publishing House, Government of Vietnam (GOV), July 1994.
9. Though agricultural production had been organized both in cooperatives and state farms, this section only deals with cooperatives, which accounted for a very large share of agricultural production. Transition to the Market (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1993).
10. Griffith Feeney and Peter Xenos, "The Demographic Situation in Vietnam: Past, Present, Prospect," in N. L. Jamieson et al., The Challenges of Vietnam's Reconstruction (Fairfax, Va.: George Mason University, Indochina Institute, 1992), p. 57; Le Trong Cue and A. Terry Rambo, eds., Too Many People, Too Little Land: The Human Ecology of a Wet Rice Growing Village in the Red River Delta of Vietnam (Honolulu: East-West Center, Program on Environment, Occasional Paper, no. 15, 1993).
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16. Based on data compiled from Vietnam government statistics.
17. World Bank, Transition to the Market, pp. 139, 143, 238, 247.
18. The conclusions of this paragraph are based on field research by a joint team from the University of Hanoi, the East-West Center, Honolulu, and the University of California, Berkeley, in August 1994, in which both authors participated.
19. This analysis draws upon research conducted by one of the authors for the World Bank, Environmental Program and Policy Priorities.
20. Ministry of Forestry, Vietnam Forestry Sector Review and Tropical Forestry Action Program: Main Report (Hanoi: MOF, 1991), p. 55.
21. Energy Sector and Investment Priorities Review (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1993).
22. Poverty Assessment and Strategy (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1995).