This paper analyses the underpinning institutional foundations of autonomy in public service delivery in Vietnam compared to the OECD countries. These include formal institutions such as governance structures, and informal institutions such as norms and values. Vietnam embarked on autonomization...

This paper explores the fiscal autonomy of Vietnam's public hospitals through analysing the formal autonomy rules and the actual autonomy practices among selected hospitals. We argue that Vietnam's autonomisation of public hospitals underpins the increasing switch of healthcare costs from the...