The Political Economy of Development in China and Vietnam

Malesky, Edmund J.; London, Jonathan D.

doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-041811-150032

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“…Vietnam has mainly concentrated development in and around the major urban centers, although it is also urbanizing rapidly. The concentration of wealth and income inequality is noticeably higher in China than in Vietnam (Malesky and London 2014).…”

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The Caring State? On Rural Welfare Governance in Post-reform Vietnam and China

Nguyen

Chen

2017

Ethics and Social Welfare

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We make three arguments in this review of the literature on rural welfare governance in Vietnam and China. First, welfare restructuring in these countries has gone through two overlapping processes of contraction and expansion, underlined by changing politics of needs and shifting modes of governance since their shift from state to market socialism. Such politics are the outcome of the Communist party-state's dual project of legitimation and control, as widespread social conflicts challenge its legitimacy. Secondly, the dislocations and inequalities induced by marketization have been coupled with greater involvement of a broad range of social actors in welfare provision. Thirdly, the rise of social protection is shaped by state control, wealth disparities between regions and social classes, and a care politics deeming certain groups as failing to meet the human capital requirements of the new economy. While providing some buffer against destitution, existing forms of social protection do little to alleviate the social exclusion and inequality resulting from post-reform dispossession.

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The Caring State? On Rural Welfare Governance in Post-reform Vietnam and China

Nguyen

Chen

2017

Ethics and Social Welfare

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“…However, the role of the socialist states is being subject to a more critical scrutiny by recent studies. Evaluating the roles of the party-states of China and Vietnam in their developmental successes, Malensky and London (2014) argue that their most robust growth was in periods of state withdrawal from the economy and their current economic difficulties stem from the scale and character of the party-state's role in the economy. Furthermore, the focus on the role of the party-state might come at the expense of obscuring other com plex factors and the interplay of different forces at the societal level and global level.…”

Section: Accommodating Neoliberal Governmentality: the Developmental mentioning

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In Search of a Post-Socialist Mode of Governmentality

Thiêm

2015

Asian J Soc Sci

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This paper examines the mode of governmentality applicable as an analytical framework in socialist states committed to market socialism. The successes of socialist states like China and Vietnam over the past few decades since their market-based reforms are attributable to this diversifying mode of governmentality and have challenged the binary dichotomy between socialism and neoliberalism. The party-states in China and Vietnam have begun to search for a post-socialist mode of governmentality, which resonates with the departure from neoliberalism towards post-neoliberalism in various capitalist countries. In Vietnam, there are signs of reconfiguration and restructuring of the party-states in such a highly complicated and fluid context to adapt themselves to a more sustainable governmentality. This results in the amorphous and ambivalent situation of a double movement of accommodating and resisting neoliberalism. That, in turn, reveals significant implications for a transformative potential for political change.

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“…[7]). The divergence in the development in China and Vietnam has been explained by differences in the political economy of development [8] [9], inter alia, by differences in the governance reforms in China and Vietnam [10]. International linkages to development have been drawn in empirical studies of trade between Vietnam and China (e.g.…”

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Economic Growth and CO<sub>2</sub>-Emissions: What If Vietnam Followed China’s Development Path?

Oberheitmann¹

2017

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Vietnam and China both are quickly emerging market economies in Asia. China has had an unprecedented economic growth in Asia for the past 30 years. Also, Vietnam's GDP is increasing, but more slowly. However, Vietnam is starting to catch up. Against this background, this article assesses the question what the economic and environmental impacts in Vietnam would be, if the country followed China's development path. Based on econometric analysis, it is shown that currently, Vietnam is lagging behind China in terms of economic growth for 11 years. Although Vietnam and China have a similar primary energy mix in the early 1980s, China is still massively relying on coal, whereas Vietnam starts to develop hydro power in the late 1980s on large scale. Due to a quick growth of per-capita income, per capita emissions in China are already catching up with those of North-European economies such as Denmark, Finland and Germany. The question arises, what if Vietnam followed China's development path. Using econometric models of GDP and CO 2 -emissions, two scenarios for Vietnam are analyzed, a scenario following China's development path and one alternative scenario pursuing the current development patterns until 2050. The results show that the additional impact of following China's economic development path is minor. Vietnam would only have a 0.5% percentage point per annum higher GDP growth. In other words, Vietnam would grow relatively quickly anyway. However, following China's development path also in terms of high CO 2 -emissions per capita, would increase the growth of CO 2 -emissions in Vietnam by 2.3 percentage points per annum and would lead to an increase of CO 2 -emissions in 2050 by 2.6 bn. tons compared with the scenario in which Vietnam sticks to its own development patterns. However, in that case, Vietnam also had a 25% lower per capita income compared with the scenario following China's development path. Here, the people and government in Vietnam have to make a strategic choice.

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The Political Economy of Development in China and Vietnam

Cited by 99 publications

References 96 publications

The Caring State? On Rural Welfare Governance in Post-reform Vietnam and China

The Caring State? On Rural Welfare Governance in Post-reform Vietnam and China

In Search of a Post-Socialist Mode of Governmentality

Economic Growth and CO<sub>2</sub>-Emissions: What If Vietnam Followed China’s Development Path?

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Cited by 99 publications

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The Caring State? On Rural Welfare Governance in Post-reform Vietnam and China

The Caring State? On Rural Welfare Governance in Post-reform Vietnam and China

In Search of a Post-Socialist Mode of Governmentality

Economic Growth and CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;-Emissions: What If Vietnam Followed China’s Development Path?

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