Vietnam in the Global Economy
The Dynamics of Integration, Decentralization, and Contested Politics
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 15 October 2015
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781498525374
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 227.58x152.65x23.114 mm
- Weight 490 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 Graphs, 46 Tables Illustrations, unspecified 0
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Long description:
This book is, in essence, about incentives: the incentives for competing societal interest groups to cooperate with each other to benefit from a growing economic pie, rather than fighting over a bigger share of a smaller one. This is the conundrum of economic development. If elite interest groups have both incentive and ability to allocate resources toward themselves, and if such rent seeking causes a decline in economic inefficiency, how can economies ever grow? The book illuminates the mechanisms by which in one of the world's recent economic success stories- Vietnam's rapid industrialization and passage into the middle-income category-the interest in cooperating to grow the economy overrode the elites' instinct to allocate resources through the use of political power. The book shows how the need to provide positive conditions for international investment altered pay-off structures and pushed the all-powerful Communist Party of Vietnam to engage in bargaining with provincial officials; provincial officials with international investors; and finally all coercive elites even with the working classes. It describes the emergence of a harmony of interest among societal groups in which each group benefits from a growing economy, and no one group can monopolize the benefits of growth without hurting itself. The Vietnam case validates Nobel-Prize winning economist Mancur Olson's proposition that elite predation can only be kept in check when the elite itself suffers from the economic decline it causes at least as much as it gains from the rents it collects.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Theory and Research Methodology
Chapter 3: From Roving to Stationary Bandit-A History
Chapter 4: Decentralization, FDI, and Provincial Governance
Chapter 5: Proximity and Contestation
Chapter 6: Race to the Bottom vs. Harmony of Interest
Chapter 7: Capital-Labor Relations and the Harmony of Interest
Chapter 8: Central-Local Harmony and Political Control
Chapter 9: Lessons for Theory and Practice
Epilogue
Appendix 1: The PAPI
Appendix 2: List of Interviews
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