Gestion du secteur pétrolier et développement institutionnel. Le cas du Vietnam

After having summarized the development of the oil sector in Vietnam during the past decade, this paper details the institutional features which have enabled its success. Their persistent aim of controlling the transition process has led the Vietnamese political leaders to adopt a pragmatic approach: on one hand, decentralization of economic management is framed by a centralization of decision-making powers through the State corporations; on the other hand, they manage to implement a soft and selective liberalization of the oil sector, relying on an horizontal extension and an internal competition among the State corporations. However, the socialist market economy building claimed by Vietnam's political leaders has caused emerging contradictory effects: at the province level, regional decentralization is hampered by a fiscal dependence which still shapes the relationship between the central Budget and the localities; at the enterprise level, the managers' autonomy is curbed by a decision-making dependence which hinders any enterprising spirit

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