Viet Nam is an economic success story - it transformed itself from a country in the 1980s as one of the poorest in the world, to a country in the 1990s with one of the world's highest growth rates. With the adoption of a new market-oriented policies, Viet Nam averaged an economic growth rate of...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Map of Vietnam -- 1. An Overview of Economic Growth and Household Welfare in Vietnam in the 1990s -- Part I. Vietnam's Economic Performance in the 1990s -- 2. Reform, Growth, and Poverty -- 3. The...

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