Melanie Beresford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Beresford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Beresford |
| SIGNATURE | BERESFORD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Paving the pathway for women's empowerment? A review of information and communication technology development in Bangladesh
This paper reviews the recent situation in information and communication technology (ICT) development in Bangladesh, with particular reference to mobile phone technologies. While mass access to ICT is often portrayed as the great socio-economic leveller, we show that in the Bangladesh case the existing evidence illustrates something quite different. Despite the high profile of certain female politicians, Bangladesh performs very poorly on interna…
Layoffs in China's City of Textiles: Adaptation to Change
Urban poverty among laid-off workers has become one of the major challenges confronting China due to the massive retrenchment of state employees since the 1990s. While a great deal of research has focused on the general situation or the analysis of aggregate-level data, the workers themselves have been given much less attention. Based on data from Shaanxi Province, this paper examines the current status of the former state workers and their famil…
Emerging Class Relations in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam: A Network Analysis
Neoclassical theory has not succeeded in explaining the relationship between increasing landlessness and class differentiation in rural southern Vietnam. In this paper, we take a relational approach, using statistical techniques from social network theory, to examine the governance structure of markets in a commune of Tra Vinh province in the Mekong River Delta. We demonstrate that new opportunities provided by the process of market development a…
The Cambodian clothing industry in the post-MFA environment: A review of developments
The period 2005–2008 provides an opportunity to examine the impact of ending the Multi-Fibre Arrangement's system of quotas on the development of Cambodia's clothing industry and the wider Cambodian economy. The question is particularly interesting because (1) Cambodia has incorporated independently monitored labour standards and trade union rights into its labour law and (2) the clothing industry plays a centrally important role in growth of exp…
Doi Moi in review: The challenges of building market socialism in Vietnam
Two decades ago the Vietnamese Communist Party embarked on a transformation from central planning towards a "socialist market economy under state guidance." It looked to East Asian development models, particularly the role of state enterprises (SEs), combined with the creation of a "civilised and equitable" society. The article argues that, in the case of SEs, the state's inability, especially under donor pressure, to provide crucial investment s…
Cambodia in 2004: An Artificial Democratization Process
Cambodia in 2004 continued its difficult labor of democratization. Elite infighting, the assassination of a prominent trade union leader, and the maneuvering of a king to ensure the safety of his dynasty dominated the political landscape during the year. Economic growth slowed, compared with previous years, and continued to be heavily concentrated in urban areas. While World Trade Organization accession in October was seen in elite circles as the…
Vietnam: Northernizing the South or Southernizing the North
On both sides of the political spectrum it was a commonly held view, after the com munist victory in April 1975, that the next phase of development in southern Viet nam would see a process of northernization ? a remoulding of southern society after the pattern already existing in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) north of the seventeenth parallel. The logic of the position held by those of the political right, that the erst while Republic …
Authority Relations and Economic Decision-Making in Vietnam: An Historical Perspective
Establishment of the DRV institutions 1945-55 the party state 1955-86 the high reform period 1986 to present concluding remarks
The Labour Movement of Vietnam
A methodology for analysing the process of economic reform in Vietnam: The case of domestic trade
Examination of the process of reform in domestic trade suggests that Vietnamese economic reforms are the result of an essentially political process dating back to the 1970s. Political change can be explained in terms of the interests and objectives of groups in society interacting with the economic context to produce political action. Also important is the changing cognition of different actors about how their objectives could be given expression…
The North Vietnamese State‐Owned Industrial Sector: Continuity and Change
Enterprise reform in the state‐owned industrial sector of northern Vietnam is examined in the context of changes in the political and macroeconomic environment of the enterprise. The article argues that reform has been partly a ‘bottom up’ process in which policy makers have been compelled to adapt to changes, often referred to by the Vietnamese as ‘fence‐breaking’ activities, in the actual operation of the economy. The transition to a market eco…
Regional inequality and regionalism in Vietnam and China
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBruce McFarlaneThe authors would like to thank Tian Gang and Mark Selden for suggestions which have proved helpful in the writing of this paper, an earlier version of which was presented to the Journal of Contemporary Asia Conference, University of Wollongong, January 1994
The Vietnamese economy 1979–93: Reforming or revolutionising Asian socialism
(1993). The Vietnamese economy 1979–93: reforming or revolutionising Asian socialism? Asian Studies Review: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 33-46
Political economy of the environment in Vietnam
The soldier comes to another front now, the environmental front.... without environmental recovery, Vietnam cannot have economic recovery. (Vo Nguyen Giap
Vietnam's Economic Policy Since 1975
Vietnam: Socialist agriculture in transition
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMelanie BeresfordPaper presented to the JCA 20th Anniversary Conference on Asia: Capitalist Development and the Future of Socialism, Manila, Nov. 10–12, 1989
National Unification and Economic Development in Vietnam
This study explains the economic upheavals experienced by Vietnam since the end of the War in terms of historical developments, especially the legacy of separation of North and South from 1954 to the
Asia in Australian higher education: The Ingleson report
Vietnam - Politics, Economics and Society: Politics, Economics, and Society
Revolution in the countryside: Report on a visit to Vietnam: October-November 1985
Household and collective in Vietnamese agriculture
America's new pacific rim strategy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrancis Pilkington The authors of this article work at the Politics Department of the University of Adelaide, Australia
Doomsayers and eco‐nuts: A critique of the ecology movement
(1977). Doomsayers and eco‐nuts: A critique of the ecology movement. Politics: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 98-106
Doi Moi in review: The challenges of building market socialism in Vietnam
Two decades ago the Vietnamese Communist Party embarked on a transformation from central planning towards a "socialist market economy under state guidance." It looked to East Asian development models, particularly the role of state enterprises (SEs), combined with the creation of a "civilised and equitable" society. The article argues that, in the case of SEs, the state's inability, especially under donor pressure, to provide crucial investment s…
Regional inequality and regionalism in Vietnam and China
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBruce McFarlaneThe authors would like to thank Tian Gang and Mark Selden for suggestions which have proved helpful in the writing of this paper, an earlier version of which was presented to the Journal of Contemporary Asia Conference, University of Wollongong, January 1994
Political economy of the environment in Vietnam
The soldier comes to another front now, the environmental front.... without environmental recovery, Vietnam cannot have economic recovery. (Vo Nguyen Giap
Layoffs in China's City of Textiles: Adaptation to Change
Urban poverty among laid-off workers has become one of the major challenges confronting China due to the massive retrenchment of state employees since the 1990s. While a great deal of research has focused on the general situation or the analysis of aggregate-level data, the workers themselves have been given much less attention. Based on data from Shaanxi Province, this paper examines the current status of the former state workers and their famil…
The Labour Movement of Vietnam
Vietnam: Socialist agriculture in transition
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMelanie BeresfordPaper presented to the JCA 20th Anniversary Conference on Asia: Capitalist Development and the Future of Socialism, Manila, Nov. 10–12, 1989
Household and collective in Vietnamese agriculture
Emerging Class Relations in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam: A Network Analysis
Neoclassical theory has not succeeded in explaining the relationship between increasing landlessness and class differentiation in rural southern Vietnam. In this paper, we take a relational approach, using statistical techniques from social network theory, to examine the governance structure of markets in a commune of Tra Vinh province in the Mekong River Delta. We demonstrate that new opportunities provided by the process of market development a…
A methodology for analysing the process of economic reform in Vietnam: The case of domestic trade
Examination of the process of reform in domestic trade suggests that Vietnamese economic reforms are the result of an essentially political process dating back to the 1970s. Political change can be explained in terms of the interests and objectives of groups in society interacting with the economic context to produce political action. Also important is the changing cognition of different actors about how their objectives could be given expression…
Doomsayers and eco‐nuts: A critique of the ecology movement
(1977). Doomsayers and eco‐nuts: A critique of the ecology movement. Politics: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 98-106
Cambodia in 2004: An Artificial Democratization Process
Cambodia in 2004 continued its difficult labor of democratization. Elite infighting, the assassination of a prominent trade union leader, and the maneuvering of a king to ensure the safety of his dynasty dominated the political landscape during the year. Economic growth slowed, compared with previous years, and continued to be heavily concentrated in urban areas. While World Trade Organization accession in October was seen in elite circles as the…
Vietnam: Northernizing the South or Southernizing the North
On both sides of the political spectrum it was a commonly held view, after the com munist victory in April 1975, that the next phase of development in southern Viet nam would see a process of northernization ? a remoulding of southern society after the pattern already existing in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) north of the seventeenth parallel. The logic of the position held by those of the political right, that the erst while Republic …
Asia in Australian higher education: The Ingleson report
Revolution in the countryside: Report on a visit to Vietnam: October-November 1985
Doomsayers and eco‐nuts: A critique of the ecology movement
(1977). Doomsayers and eco‐nuts: A critique of the ecology movement. Politics: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 98-106
America's new pacific rim strategy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrancis Pilkington The authors of this article work at the Politics Department of the University of Adelaide, Australia
Household and collective in Vietnamese agriculture
Revolution in the countryside: Report on a visit to Vietnam: October-November 1985
Vietnam - Politics, Economics and Society: Politics, Economics, and Society
National Unification and Economic Development in Vietnam
This study explains the economic upheavals experienced by Vietnam since the end of the War in terms of historical developments, especially the legacy of separation of North and South from 1954 to the
Asia in Australian higher education: The Ingleson report
Vietnam: Socialist agriculture in transition
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMelanie BeresfordPaper presented to the JCA 20th Anniversary Conference on Asia: Capitalist Development and the Future of Socialism, Manila, Nov. 10–12, 1989
Political economy of the environment in Vietnam
The soldier comes to another front now, the environmental front.... without environmental recovery, Vietnam cannot have economic recovery. (Vo Nguyen Giap
Vietnam's Economic Policy Since 1975
The Vietnamese economy 1979–93: Reforming or revolutionising Asian socialism
(1993). The Vietnamese economy 1979–93: reforming or revolutionising Asian socialism? Asian Studies Review: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 33-46
The North Vietnamese State‐Owned Industrial Sector: Continuity and Change
Enterprise reform in the state‐owned industrial sector of northern Vietnam is examined in the context of changes in the political and macroeconomic environment of the enterprise. The article argues that reform has been partly a ‘bottom up’ process in which policy makers have been compelled to adapt to changes, often referred to by the Vietnamese as ‘fence‐breaking’ activities, in the actual operation of the economy. The transition to a market eco…
Regional inequality and regionalism in Vietnam and China
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBruce McFarlaneThe authors would like to thank Tian Gang and Mark Selden for suggestions which have proved helpful in the writing of this paper, an earlier version of which was presented to the Journal of Contemporary Asia Conference, University of Wollongong, January 1994
A methodology for analysing the process of economic reform in Vietnam: The case of domestic trade
Examination of the process of reform in domestic trade suggests that Vietnamese economic reforms are the result of an essentially political process dating back to the 1970s. Political change can be explained in terms of the interests and objectives of groups in society interacting with the economic context to produce political action. Also important is the changing cognition of different actors about how their objectives could be given expression…
The Labour Movement of Vietnam
Authority Relations and Economic Decision-Making in Vietnam: An Historical Perspective
Establishment of the DRV institutions 1945-55 the party state 1955-86 the high reform period 1986 to present concluding remarks
Vietnam: Northernizing the South or Southernizing the North
On both sides of the political spectrum it was a commonly held view, after the com munist victory in April 1975, that the next phase of development in southern Viet nam would see a process of northernization ? a remoulding of southern society after the pattern already existing in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) north of the seventeenth parallel. The logic of the position held by those of the political right, that the erst while Republic …
Cambodia in 2004: An Artificial Democratization Process
Cambodia in 2004 continued its difficult labor of democratization. Elite infighting, the assassination of a prominent trade union leader, and the maneuvering of a king to ensure the safety of his dynasty dominated the political landscape during the year. Economic growth slowed, compared with previous years, and continued to be heavily concentrated in urban areas. While World Trade Organization accession in October was seen in elite circles as the…
Doi Moi in review: The challenges of building market socialism in Vietnam
Two decades ago the Vietnamese Communist Party embarked on a transformation from central planning towards a "socialist market economy under state guidance." It looked to East Asian development models, particularly the role of state enterprises (SEs), combined with the creation of a "civilised and equitable" society. The article argues that, in the case of SEs, the state's inability, especially under donor pressure, to provide crucial investment s…
The Cambodian clothing industry in the post-MFA environment: A review of developments
The period 2005–2008 provides an opportunity to examine the impact of ending the Multi-Fibre Arrangement's system of quotas on the development of Cambodia's clothing industry and the wider Cambodian economy. The question is particularly interesting because (1) Cambodia has incorporated independently monitored labour standards and trade union rights into its labour law and (2) the clothing industry plays a centrally important role in growth of exp…
Paving the pathway for women's empowerment? A review of information and communication technology development in Bangladesh
This paper reviews the recent situation in information and communication technology (ICT) development in Bangladesh, with particular reference to mobile phone technologies. While mass access to ICT is often portrayed as the great socio-economic leveller, we show that in the Bangladesh case the existing evidence illustrates something quite different. Despite the high profile of certain female politicians, Bangladesh performs very poorly on interna…
Layoffs in China's City of Textiles: Adaptation to Change
Urban poverty among laid-off workers has become one of the major challenges confronting China due to the massive retrenchment of state employees since the 1990s. While a great deal of research has focused on the general situation or the analysis of aggregate-level data, the workers themselves have been given much less attention. Based on data from Shaanxi Province, this paper examines the current status of the former state workers and their famil…
Emerging Class Relations in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam: A Network Analysis
Neoclassical theory has not succeeded in explaining the relationship between increasing landlessness and class differentiation in rural southern Vietnam. In this paper, we take a relational approach, using statistical techniques from social network theory, to examine the governance structure of markets in a commune of Tra Vinh province in the Mekong River Delta. We demonstrate that new opportunities provided by the process of market development a…
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