The Political Economy Of Growth In Vietnam Between States And Markets 1st Edition Guanie Lim by Guanie Lim 9780429321375, 9780367333867, 0429321376, 0367333864 instant download after payment.

Since the doi moi reforms in 1986, Vietnam has experienced a dramatic
socioeconomic transformation. Lim examines the role of the state and its
interaction with market forces in bringing this change about. Taking
the motorcycle and banking industries as case studies, this book
explores the dynamics between the state and transnational corporations
in shaping the manufacturing and service sectors, respectively. Vietnam,
as one of Southeast Asia’s quintessential latecomer economies with
little prior experience of dealing with transnational corporations, has
nevertheless been quite successful in maintaining some control over the
impact of foreign direct investment. Yet, the learning outcomes remain
highly uneven. In addition, Lim argues that Vietnamese advancement in
both industries mirrors only partially the more generalized patterns of
state-led development in East Asia’s earlier batch of latecomer
economies. Vietnam’s case thus presents practical lessons on how to
succeed in crafting and utilizing policy instruments to achieve domestic
economic and technological upgrading. This book will be of great
interest to scholars of political economy and industrial policy in East
Asia, as well as to scholars and policy professionals analyzing
approaches to development strategy more broadly.