The Challenge of Reform in Indochina
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Harvard Institute for International Development, 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvii, [3], 396 pages. Footnotes. Tables. Figures. This is one of the Harvard Studies in International Development. Includes listing of Contributors; Preface; Appendix; and Index. Chapters include Reforming the Economic Systems of Vietnam and Laos; Indochina beyond the Cold War: The Chill from Eastern Europe; Market Economies under Communist Regimes: Reform in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia; Laos: Decentralization and Economic Control; "Beyond Suffering": The Recent History of a Cambodian Village; Vietnam at the Starting Point: Just Another Successful Asian Economy?; Food Policy and Economic Reform in Vietnam; Vietnam: Successes and Failures of Macroeconomic Stabilization; Population, Health, and Gender in Vietnam: Social Policies under the Economic Reforms; Economic Reform and the Intensification of Rituals in Two North Vietnamese Villages, 1980-90; The Political Economy of "Reform" in Vietnam--Some Reflections; Political Renovation in Vietnam: Renewal and Adaptation; Concluding Remarks: Key Issues in the Reform Process. The chapters in this volume were first presented as papers in a seminar series developed by Borje Ljunggren during the 1990-91 academic year. The papers--by economists, political scientists, anthropologists, Journalists, and aid administrators--emphasize human and policy issues concerning Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia since the end of the Second Indochina War in 1975. The authors analyze these market transformations from varying perspectives, including foreign policy, history, gender, macroeconomics, politics, and social issues. More