“Doi Moi” in Vietnam and Some Suggestions

The role of education in post doi moi Vietnam

Substance use disorders and HIV in Vietnam since Doi Moi (Renovation): an overview.

Drawing from published and gray literature, this manuscript focuses on the following topics: (1) changing patterns of substance use and abuse in Vietnam since the early 1990s; (2) the roles of substance use in the HIV epidemic; (3) the responses of the Vietnamese government and other entities (both domestic and international) to substance use disorders (SUDs) and HIV; and (4) the current resear...

"Rice is essential but tiresome; you should get some noodles": Doi Moi and the political economy of men's extramarital sexual relations and marital HIV risk in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Research from around the world has suggested that married women's greatest risk for contracting HIV is from having sexual intercourse with their husbands. On the basis of 6 months of ethnographic research in Hanoi, Vietnam, I argue that the contemporary nature of the HIV epidemic in Hanoi is shaped by 3 interrelated policies implemented in 1986 as part of the government's new economic policy, D...

Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children under Doi Moi

By international standards, and especially given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. We review existing evidence and provide some new evidence bearing on the question of whether under the economic liberalization program known as Doi Moi this reduction in child mortality has been sustained. We c...

VIETNAM – Ready for Doi

Compared with its ASEAN neighbors, Vietnam appears to have weathered the Asian crisis quite well. Official statistics indicate a GDP growth rate of 6.6 per cent for the first half of 1998; export growth remains positive, and the dong has depreciated by only 20 per cent against the USD. But the relatively favorable picture has more to do with controls than with sound economic fundamentals. In th...