This paper tests the hypothesis that increasing stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) can
lead to de facto decentralization in the form of autonomous reform experiments by …

The 1997 Asian financial cnsis came as a wake-up call to Vietnam's Communist Party elite.
While the immediate impact was not dramatic, largely because Vietnam's currency was not …

Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of
capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the …

During over 20 years of doi moi 1 Vietnam achieved major results in terms of economic
growth, institutional development, and poverty reduction. This chapter argues that these …

Since the mid-2000s Vietnam has become an important manufacturing hub in garment and,
increasingly, in electronics. However, the expansion of an fdi-dominated, export-oriented …

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) 1 as a region currently receives the highest share of Official
Development Assistance (ODA) in the world with around one third of overall net ODA flows …

A much-needed examination of the impact of neo-liberalism in East Asia in the years since
the 1997 to 1998 Asian Economic Crisis. These leading contributors tackle the nature of neo …

This book examines how increasing Africa-China relations in the fields of trade,
development finance and investment have impacted productive capacities and structural …

This research explains why Vietnam and China have different configurations of state
capacity and how these differences affect their resilience and prospect of political change …

Da decenni l'Asia Orientale cresce a ritmi molto sostenuti, tanto che negli anni'90 si è
addirittura utilizzata l'espressione «miracolo» per un gruppo di paesi della regione. Eppure …