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Changing political economy of Vietnam : the case of Ho Chi Minh City /
Based on years of painstaking research, Changing Political Economy of Vietnam: The Case of Ho Chi Minh offers rarely seen view of the politics and political economy of Vietnam's second city during the reform era. The book explores the way in which the state has become commercialised under refor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis e-Library,
2003.
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| Colección: | Rethinking Southeast Asia ;
5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Changing Political Economy of Vietnam: The case of Ho Chi Minh City
- Untitled
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 From plan to market: the logic of decentralisation
- Introduction
- Decentralisation and reform
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Ho Chi Minh City under planning: the logic of control
- Ho Chi Minh City and reform: increased autonomy
- Decentralisation versus centralisation: the controlling imperative
- Characterising local governments: from developmentalism to rent-seeking
- Disaggregating the state: differing incentives
- Methodology and sources
- The structure of the book
- 2 In business: the hollowing out of the state sector
- Introduction
- Ho Chi Minh City's political economy in the second half of the 1990s
- New business opportunities with reform
- High growth sectors
- The emergence of diversified business corporations
- Changing property rights
- New management
- Bureaucratic and political background
- From speculation to smuggling
- Conclusion
- 3 Patterns of circulation: democratic centralism under strain
- Introduction
- Democratic centralism: the official picture
- Democratic centralism under strain
- Explaining change
- The changing character of elites
- Politics and business: three patterns
- Clientelist networks
- Democratic centralism undermined: the exception or the rule?
- Conclusion
- 4 Institutional conflict: the city, the centre and the lower levels
- Introduction
- Institutional rivalry: which institutions and what is at stake?
- The city People's Committee, the departments and the districts
- Some patterns: pressure from above and below
- Clampdowns: a backseat role for the city People's Committee
- Where do clampdowns come from and why do they occur?
- Momentum lost
- The role of the city in clampdowns.
- The city People's Committee's response to Decree 18: singing the tune of the lower levels
- Limits to the centre's writ in Ho Chi Minh City
- Conclusion
- 5 The politics of economic decentralisation: the Tamexco and Minh Phung-Epco cases
- Introduction
- The rise of Tamexco, Epco and Minh Phung
- The fall of Tamexco, Epco and Minh Phung
- Explaining Tamexco's and Minh Phung-Epco's fall
- Proving guilt
- The politics of economic decentralisation
- 6 Rethinking reform: property rights and the dynamics of change
- Introduction
- Opposition to reform?
- Changes in property rights
- Government-centred property rights
- Enforcing property rights
- Ho Chi Minh City's property arrangements explained
- What has changed?
- What is the momentum of change?
- The meaning of reform
- Critiquing the Vietnam literature
- Spontaneous change and reform
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.