Obsessive Planning in Transitional Vietnam

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ID12814464
AuthorsSimon Benedikter (0000-0002-3223-291X, corresponding author), Loan T P Nguyen
Year2018
Volume13
Issue4
Pages1-47
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Vietnamese Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1559-372X • E-ISSN: 1559-3738
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/vs.2018.13.4.1
OpenAlexW2906439033
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This essay offers reflections on Vietnam’s post-socialist state planning system and an upcoming government initiative to reform it. Thirty years after the departure from Soviet-style central planning, state-directed planning prevails as the dominant feature of Vietnam’s governance system, policy regime, and economic system. Our purpose is to examine why state-directed planning has been so resilient despite its many associated drawbacks in the past and present. We present a range of critical thoughts on the underlying causes and drivers that have preserved state-directed planning and that may jeopardize the nascent reform process

Business system planning · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Government (linguistics · Management · Planned economy · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Law · Public Administration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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