"China, Laos and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety,...

Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future -- Phill Wilcox, Jonathan Rigg and Minh Nguyen -- 2 Risk Perception and Lowland Rice Farming Change in Savannakhet Province, Southern Laos...

Vietnam has integrated into global value chains through the establishment of special economic zones (SEZs). This paper examines the local labour-market impacts of this programme, building on a unique dataset of SEZs in combination with labour force survey (LFS) data. Using historical satellite...

Dies ist eine aktualisierte und mit neuen Inhalten ergänzte Neuausgabe des Titels "Der Aufstieg des Drachen und des weißen Adlers". Vom Manhattan Institut für den Hayek Book Prize 2025 nominiert Entwicklungshilfe hilft armen Ländern nicht aus der Armut – das belegt der Autor dieses Buches....

The so-called digital convergence, with similar meaning terms such as cross-media or multimedia are also used, is a field of contemporary media development that has been little studied, especially in Asia. The deficits can be attributed above all to the inadequate establishment of media research...

"This book investigates Vietnam's integration into the changing global and regional electronics production networks since the 2000s. It reveals that instead of driving only by the traditional lead firms and the lower costs, this complex production reconfiguration has been co-led by various firms...

"The book adopts a cognitive perspective on social mobility and its management, addressing gaps and paradoxes in developing science and technology (S&T) human resources at both organizational (particularly universities) and national levels in Vietnam, through sociological and policy approaches....

Introduction : Turning Land into Capital / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah and Michael Dwyer -- Land and Capital across Borders : A Regional Geopolitics / Natalia Scurrah and Philip Hirsch -- Legacies in Land Governance : Colonialism, War and Socialism / Kevin Woods, Michael Dwyer...