1st Edition

The Limits of National Liberation Problems of Economic Management in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with a Statistical Appendix

By Adam Fforde, Suzanne H. Paine Copyright 1987
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

This book, first published in 1987, examines the experience of the North Vietnamese economy during the struggle for national reunification and the Vietnam war. It chronicles the impact of war and Socialist Construction upon an extremely poor area left undeveloped by French colonial exploitation. The analysis focuses on the severe restraints that faced socio-economic development in North Vietnam,... Read more

Part 1. Problems of Economic Management in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam  1. The Historical Inheritance: The Constraints of Time and Place  2. The DRV: Immediate Origins, Problems of the Transition and Basic Structure, The Aggravated Shortage Economy  3. Constraints in Operation: The Creation of an Aggravated Shortage Economy and the Deterioration of Domestic and Foreign Balances  4. Population Growth and Structural Change  5. Industry  6. Agriculture and Forced Development: The Peasantry Copes  7. Conclusions: The Limits of National Liberation  Part2. Statistical Appendix

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Adam Fforde and Suzanne H. Paine