Below we list selected works in the social sciences that focus on Vietnam, primarily issues of economic development and transition, gender, and demographic features/trends. Please note that this bibliography is undergoing continual updates and in should in no way be considered exhaustive of contemporary social science research on Vietnam. This bibliography was compiled by researchers affiliated with the University of Washington, Center for the Studies in Demography and Ecology, Vietnam Demography and Society Research Projects.
Bresnan, John. 1994. From Dominoes to Dynamos: The Transformation of Southeast Asia. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press.
Bryant, John. 1998. "Communism, Poverty, and Demographic Change in North Vietnam," Population and Development Review 24(2): 235-269.
Dang, Nguyen Anh. 1998. "Market Transitions, Government Policy and Internal Labour Migration in Vietnam," Vietnam’s Socio-economic Development 16: 59-80.
Dang, Nguyen Anh, Goldstein, Sidney, and James McNally. 1997. "Internal Migration and Development in Vietnam," International Migration Review 31(2): 312-337.
De Vylder, Stefan and Adam Fforde. 1988. Vietnam: An Economy in Transition, Stockholm: Swedish International Development Authority.
Dollar, David, Glewwe, Paul, and Jennie Litvack. 1998. Household Welfare and Vietnam’s Transition (World Bank Regional and Sectoral Studies), Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.
East Asia Analytic Unit. 1997. The New ASEANS: Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos. Barton, Australia: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Fforde, Adam. 1994. The Institutions of Transformation from Central Planning: The Case of Vietnam. Economic Division Working Papers 94: 4, Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
Fforde, Adam and Stefan de Vylder. 1996. From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam. Boulder: Westview Press.
Forbes, Dean K., Hull, Terence H., Marr, David G., and Brian Brogan (eds). 1991. Doi Moi: Vietnam’s Renovation Policy and Performance (Political and Social Change Monograph 14), Canberra: Australia National University, Department of Political and Social Change.
Hoang Thi Lich. 1994. "The Development of Household Economies and Market Systems in Improving the Gender and Poverty Situation in Vietnam, pages 318-333 in Noeleen Heyzer and
Hy Van Luong. 1992. Revolution in the Village. Tradition and Transformation in North Vietnam, 1925-1988, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Gita Sen (Eds) Gender, Economic Growth, and Poverty: Market Growth and State Planning in Asia and the Pacific, Utrecht, The Netherlands: International Books.
Irvin, George. 1994. Vietnam: Some Macroeconomic Dimensions of Doi Moi (Working Paper), The Hague: Netherlands: Institute of Social Studies.
Kerkvliet, Benedict J. Tria (ed). 1994. Dilemmas of Development: Vietnam Update 1994, Canberra, Australia: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
Kerkvliet, Benedict J. Tria and Doug J. Porter (eds). 1995. Vietnam’s Rural Transformation. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Liljestrom, Rita, Lindskog, Eva, Nguyen Van Ang, and Vuong Xuan Tinh. 1998. Profit and Poverty in Rural Vietnam: Winners and Losers of a Dismantled Revolution. (Nordic Division of Asian Studies, Democracy in Asia Series No. 3), Surrey: Curzon Press.
Marr, David. 1995. Vietnam Strives to Catch Up, New York: The Asia Society.
Norlund, Irene, Gates, Carolyn L. and Vu Cao Dam (eds). 1995. Vietnam in a Changing World, Surrey, UK: Curzon Press Ltd.
Nugent, Nicholas. 1995. Vietnam: The Second Revolution. Brighton, UK: In Print Publishing.
Phong, Dang and Melanie Beresford. 1998. Authority Relations and Economic Decision-Making in Vietnam: An Historical Perspective. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute for Asian Studies.
Ronnas, Per and Orjan Sjoberg (Eds). 1991. Socioeconomic Development in Vietnam: The Agenda for the 1990s, Stockholm: Swedish International Development Authority.
Ronnas, Per. 1992. Employment Generation Through Private Entrepreneurship in Vietnam. Stockholm: International Labour Organization.
Tana, Li. 1996. Peasants on the Move: Rural-Urban Migration in the Hanoi Region. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Tinker, Irene and Gale Summerfield. 1999. Women’s Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Von Hoffman, Norbert. 1994. Economic Reform Policy in Vietnam: Aims, Instruments, and Results. Brussells: European Institute for South and South-East Asian Studies.
World Bank, 1993. "Vietnam: Transition to the Market," Report 11902-VN. East Asia and Pacific Region, Washington, D.C.
World Bank. 1996. Vietnam: Fiscal Decentralization and the Delivery of Rural Services, World Bank, Washington, D.C.
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