This book offers a comprehensive and empirically grounded examination of Vietnams rapid yet uneven economic and social development, highlighting patterns of club convergence among provinces and the persistent challenges faced by lagging regions. It explores the influential factors constraining catch-up progress, such as heterogeneous infrastructure, geographic and resource disparities, planning and policy limitations, and exogenous shocks. Critical resources such as educated labor and infrastructure are shown to shape investor decisions and long-term development trajectories.
This edited volume fills a significant research gap by presenting empirical studies on comparative economic and social development and performance evaluation at provincial, regional, and sectoral levels. The contributions provide high-quality, in-depth scholarly perspectives on Vietnams economy during a period of profound transitions, environmental, energy, technological, and educational. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation of the complexities surrounding Vietnams development and its regional and international relations.
Chapter
1. Introduction to and summary of Drivers of Economic Growth,
Inequality and Poverty among Provinces in Vietnam.- Part 1: Institutions and
Governance.
Chapter
2. Governance Quality, Corruption, and Provincial
Economic Performance in Vietnam.
Chapter
3. State-Led Nationalism in
Vietnam: Theories, Practices, and Challenges in Linking National Identity to
Development.
Chapter
4. Baseline Assessment of Total Factor Productivity
under Administrative Reform: A Vietnamese Provincial Study.- Part 2:
Development Infrastructure.
Chapter
5. Development Infrastructure and
Innovation Capacity: An Analysis Using Provincial Data in Vietnam.
Chapter
6. Economic Growth and Urbanization in Vietnams Provinces.- Part 3: Growth
factors.
Chapter
7. The Impact of Digital Transformation on Provincial
Growth in Vietnam.
Chapter
8. The Impact of FDI on Provincial Economic
Growth in Vietnam.
Chapter
9. Education, Health, and Economic Growth in
Vietnamese Provinces.- Part 4: Competition and convergence.
Chapter
10. How
to avoid middle income trap.
Chapter
11. The Convergence of Development
among Provinces in Vietnam: A Club-Convergence Approach.- Part 5:
Environment.
Chapter
12. Determinants of Air Quality in Vietnams
Provinces.
Chapter
13. Impacts of Trade Openness on Ecological Footprint in
Vietnam.- Part 6: Welfare.
Chapter
14. The Impact of Economic Growth on
Multidimensional Child Poverty in Vietnam: A Province Level Analysis.-
Chapter
15. Regional Disparities of Educational Attainment in Vietnam.
Almas Heshmati is Visiting Professor of Economics at University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Previously he held Professor of Economics positions at Jönköping University, Sogang University, Korea University, Seoul National University, University of Kurdistan Hawler, and the MTT Agrifood Research (Finland). He was Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), The United Nations University during 2001-2004. From 1998 until 2001, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. He has a Ph.D. degree from the University of Gothenburg (1994), where he held a Senior Researcher position until 1998. His research interests include applied microeconomics, globalization, efficiency, productivity and growth with application to manufacturing and services, environmental economics and well-being. In addition to more than 200 scientific journal articles he has published more than 30 books on EU Lisbon Process, Global Inequality, East Asian Manufacturing, Chinese Economy, Technology Transfer, Information Technology, Water Resources, Landmines, Power Generation, Renewable Energy, Development Economics, World Values, Poverty, well-being, Economic Growth, and Vietnams economy. He is editor of several book series and economic journals.
