The political economy of industrial development in Vietnam: Impact of state-business relationship on industrial performance, 1986-2012

Abstract

Typescript prepared by Janis Vehmaan-Kreula at UNU-WIDER. UNU-WIDER acknowledges specific programme contribution from KOICA for the series of studies on 'The Practice of Industrial Policy-Lessons for Africa' and core financial support to its work programme for the governments of Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) was established by the United Nations University (UNU) as its first research and training centre and started work in Helsinki, Finland in 1985. The Institute undertakes applied research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the developing and transitional economies, provides a forum for the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth, and promotes capacity strengthening and training in the field of economic and social policy-making. Work is carried out by staff researchers and visiting scholars in Helsinki and through networks of collaborating scholars and institutions around the world.

The need for economics education in Vietnam high school curriculum: A preliminary observation

“…We suspected because these papers are not conventional journal articles, they are not prioritized by Google Scholar. Indeed, papers in the political economy are not limited to conventional journal articles; there are also valuable working papers from famous institutes [11,15,18,20]. These papers attract many citations, too, and researchers should not forget these papers in any analysis.…”

State-business relations as drivers of economic performance

“…More recent lessons from Vietnam (Vu-Thanh 2014) show that between 1986 and 2012, the success of Vietnam's industrial development was, in part, determined by the relationship between the state and the private sector. One of the preconditions of success, echoing Buur and Whitfield's (2013) observations, was that the ruling elite formed close ties with the productive forces (i.e.…”

Exploring the most influential papers in Vietnam's political economy in the past ten years

“…Vietnam's political economy: a discussion on the 1986-2016 period 2014 67 [1] Vietnam's political economy in transition 2014 45 [2] The political economy of development in China and Vietnam 2014 102 [3] Competing legacies: rupture and continuity in Vietnamese political economy 2012 11 [4] The political economy of industrial development in Vietnam: Impact of state business relationship on industrial performance 2015 17 [5] The political economy of food price volatility: The case of Vietnam and rice 2016 21 [6] The political economy of food price policy in Vietnam 2014 10 [7] Scaling up rural sanitation in Vietnam: political economy constraints and opportunities 2011 12 [8] Vietnam: Political economy, marketing system 2012 36 [9] The missing middle: A political economy of economic restructuring in Vietnam 2017 11 [10] With this set of keywords, we can only find three papers with more than 40 citations since 2010. Notably, they were all published in 2014, so the number of citations can be compared easily.…”

“…Considering papers with more than ten citations, we have some more candidates [4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Moreover, when changing the filter to 'Any time,' several classic works entered the picture: Gainsborough's book from 2003 (141 citations) [11], Popkin's 41-years-old book [12] with 2721 citations, or Quang and Kammeier's paper with 109 citations [11], and some others [13][14][15][16].…”

“…We suspected because these papers are not conventional journal articles, they are not prioritized by Google Scholar. Indeed, papers in the political economy are not limited to conventional journal articles; there are also valuable working papers from famous institutes [1,5,8,10]. These papers attract many citations, too, and researchers should not forget these papers in any analysis.…”