Faculty of Arts Asia Institute

Curriculum Vitae

Dr Adam J. Fforde MA (Oxon), MSc (Lond.), PhD (Cantab.)

Asian Studies


Professional Address

Asia Institute
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia

Tel: +61 3 8344 5989
Fax: +61 3 9349 4870
E-mail: fforde@unimelb.edu.au
Web: http://www.aduki.com.au


Degrees, Qualifications

1982 Ph.D. Economics, Cambridge University
1978-79 Hanoi University, Vietnam
Dissertation Title: Problems of Agricultural Development in North Vietnam
1977 M.Sc. Economics, Birkbeck College, London University
Optional paper in Development Economics
1976 M.A. Engineering Science and Economics, Oxford University
1973 B.A. Engineering Science and Economics, Oxford University

Professional Details

Current positions:

Chairman: Adam Fforde and Associates Pty Ltd – AF&A p/l (previously Aduki Pty Ltd) an Australian consultancy company. Chairman, The Vietnam Educational Trust, a UK registered charity involved in the finance of education, research and other activities related to Vietnamese development issues.

Principal Fellow:
Asia Institute (Asia Institute), University of Melbourne.


Skills

Development Economist and Policy Analyst; experience in development policy, institutional assessment and design. Theoretical work in transition theory and economic method.

Research , very often collaborative and multi-disciplinary, has focussed mainly upon economic transition and the analysis of institutions and of development policy.

Operational experience includes extensive experience with institutional assessment and design, including the management and analysis of aid and aid policy, especially at project and program levels.

Advisory experience has included Embassy/Country Program and Project levels. I have worked for a range of official organisations, including ADB, AusAID, CIDA, Danish Red Cross, DFID, DANIDA, Sida, UNDP, UNCDF and the World Bank.

Academic teaching and supervisory experience has mainly been multi-disciplinary, focussing upon development policy and political economy issues.

Writing and drafting: extensive experience in preparing and drafting work for various audiences.


Work Experience

Chairman of Adam Fforde and Associates Pty Ltd. Adam Fforde and Associates is an Australian consultancy company focussing upon Vietnam, with specialisations in economics, health, training and aid project evaluation and management. Through much of the 1990s I was author and editor of Vietnam: Economic Commentary and Analysis, a review published by the company. Adam Fforde and Associates’ (previously Aduki Pty Ltd) main clients have been aid donors and the work a mixture of contract research and project related activities. The company has also provided advice to business clients, who include: News Corp; Shell; BP.

Chairman of The Vietnam Educational Trust (UK Charity # 291246). VET has carried out a number of highly-focussed and seminal activities since its founding in 1985. These include, very early, financing of three Vietnamese students to obtain Masters degrees (economics) in the UK; and the organisation and support of various seminars - the first Western seminars on modern economics in North Vietnam, at the Hanoi National Economics University, 1988; a seminar on growth economics in Hanoi, 1993; and, with the Vietnamese NGO "Towards Ethnic Women", a seminar to exchange ideas amongst farmers, academics and policy makers on mountain resource development held in Hanoi in 1995.

Contributor to various TV and radio programmes, including BBC World Service Vietnamese Service broadcasts; also the Australian Broadcasting Corporation .

Reviewer for various academic journals and publishers: Asian-Pacific Economic Literature; Asian Survey; Cornell University Press; Development and Change; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore; Journal of Asian Business; Journal of Asian Studies; Journal of Comparative Economics; Journal of Economic History; Journal of Economic Literature; Journal of Tropical Geography; Southeast Asia Publications, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois; The Pacific Review, Journal of International Marketing.


Work History

Senior Fellow , Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore (Dec 1999 to Dec 2001).

1992 to present: Chairman – Adam Fforde and Associates Pty Ltd (previously Aduki Pty Ltd). Adam Fforde and Associates is an Australian consultancy company focussing upon Vietnam, with specialisations in economics, health, training and aid project evaluation and management. Through much of the 1990s I was author and editor of Vietnam: Economic Commentary and Analysis, a review published by the company. Adam Fforde and Associates’ (previously Aduki Pty Ltd) main clients have been aid donors and the work a mixture of contract research and project related activities. The company has also provided advice to business clients, who include: News Corp; Shell; BP.

Contributor to various TV and radio programmes, including BBC World Service Vietnamese Service broadcasts; also the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Reviewer for various academic journals and publishers: Asian-Pacific Economic Literature; Asian Survey; Cornell University Press; Development and Change; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore; Journal of Asian Business; Journalof Asian Studies; Journal of Comparative Economics; Journal of Economic History; Journal of Economic Literature; Journal of Tropical Geography; Southeast Asia Publications, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois; The Pacific Review, Journal of International Marketing.

(For completed consultancy work see below)

1995-present

Visiting Fellow , Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (1993-96 Dept of Economics; 1997-99 Dept. of Political and Social Change).

1999-2000

1989 - 1992: Socio-economic adviser , Swedish International Development Authority Development Cooperation Office, Swedish Embassy, Hanoi. Responsible for a variety of tasks related to the bilateral cooperation program, including socio-economic monitoring, analysis of Vietnamese economic reform and practical advice on the re-design of aid projects to make them appropriate to the economic reform process.
1996-1997 1991: Visiting Scholar , Stockholm School of Economics.
1989-1995 1991: Country Consultant and co-author , The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Report for the Asian Development Bank, Manila.
1990 Visiting Scholar , National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Working on Vietnamese State Industrial Reform 1979-89.
1988-1989 Senior Socio-economic Specialist , Forestry and Plantation and Soil Conservation Projects, Bai Bang, Vinh Phu, Vietnam.
1987-1988 Consultant , SIDA. Two major studies: Forestry workers in Vietnam - a study of living and working conditions (1987); Vietnam - an economy in transition (1988).
1983-1987 ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow , Birkbeck College, London University. Study entitled Vietnamese Industrial Organisation.
1985-1986 Visiting Fellow , National Economics University, Hanoi.
1983-1990 Author , Vietnam section, Quarterly Economic Review of Indochina, Economist Intelligence Unit, London.
1982-1983 Freelance Economic Consultant . Prepared Research Proposal for Overseas Development Institute, London, The Aid Debate. Rapporteur for Royal Institute of International Affairs Study Group on Soviet Relations with the Third World. Prepared The Outlook for the World Distribution of Income for Henley Centre for Forecasting, London.
1975-1976 Freelance Economic Consultant . Work included Research Assistant to David Galloway, The Public Prodigals: the growth of public spending and how to control it , London: Maurice Temple Smith, 1976.
1973-1975 Economic Analyst , The Henley Centre for Forecasting, London. A variety of applied economic and statistical work, including exchange rate forecasting, analysis of the UK second hand car market, of the import content of tourism and NIA forecasting for Ireland and the UK.

Consultancy Work

I have carried out a very wide range of consultancy activities, from exchange rate forecasting to evaluation of projects.


Ongoing

Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Hanoi (institutional reform), UNDP, Hanoi Vietnam started Nov 2004.

International consultant, Study of the impact of the Enterprise Law on Rural Development, UNDP, Hanoi Vietnam started Nov 2004.

Completed

Technical Director, Mekong Delta Poverty Study, AusAID (Oct 2002 – early 2004). Detailed study of poverty in the Mekong Delta (in association with World Vision Australia).

Review of Vietnamese policy analysis for transition economy, FAO Training Course, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Yangoon, Myanmar, FAO. (May 2004). Presentation of Vietnamese methods of policy analysis and approach to the transition to a market economy.

Financial policy capability analysis, Ministry of Finance, Vietnam (Team Leader), UNDP, (March-May 2004). Analysis of policy analysis capacity at the Ministry.

Feasibility of proposals for assistance to Inspectorate, Ministry of Planning and Investment, DFID, Vietnam (Nov 2003). Analysis of feasibility of proposed support to this important part of the control system.

Comments on the Working Regulations of the Vietnamese Government, DANIDA, 2002. Consultancy to support the institutional development of the Office of Government, through analysis and recommendations for changes to the Government’s Working Regulations.

Review: Country Strategy Paper, DFID , 2002. Member of three person team to evaluate the CSP, which is the guiding strategic document for DFID in Vietnam.

Vietnamese Farmers’ Organisations Sida 2001. Detailed study of rural institutional change, looking at the Party-sponsored new-style cooperatives and the informal farmers’ groups; fieldwork in 3 provinces and workshop of results.

Vietnamese State-Owned Enterprises - their real ownershipCIDA 2001. Detailed study of real ownership of SOEs – who owns, who controls. Results translated and extensive soundings of Vietnamese opinions taken.

Evaluation of the FCP and MRDP ProjectsSida 2000-2001. Member of team for this important evaluation of a decade of Sida support to forest and upland rural development in N Vietnam.

Vietnam Program AssessmentAusAID 1999. Leader of team to assess the guiding strategic document for AusAID support to Vietnam, with development of methodology to assess contribution of program components to strategic corporate goals.

Vietnam ’s External Economic Policies: Assessment and Strategy Implications - Workshop Chairman/Organiser Hanoi CIDA 1999. Organised workshop to provide Government of Vietnam with comments on their external policies.

Impact of the economic crisis upon agricultural and rural development: Vietnam , AusAID 1999. Report.

Strategic Evaluation Component: Mid-Term Evaluation, Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDEF), Quang Nam Province, Central VietnamUNCDF/UNDP 1998-99. Project evaluation.

From Unconscious to Conscious pragmatism: lessons from experience and recommendations for the future strategic framework of Australian-Vietnamese cooperationAusAID 1998. ‘Think piece’ as input to AusAID strategy development.

Evaluation of Project Impact, Dai Loc UNCDF Project, Quang Nam Province, Central VietnamUNCDF 1998. Project evaluation.

Evaluation of Provincial PAR Project Proposals, North and Central VietnamSida 1998.

Vulnerable Groups in Rural Vietnam: Situation and Policy Response - analysis of a large sample survey (carried out with Aduki technical assistance), Ministry of Labour, HanoiSIDA 1998. Report writer and leader of TA to large quantitative survey of vulnerable groups in Vietnam, workshop and advice.

Institutions and markets as factors in Vietnamese medium-term agricultural output performance - an assessment , Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development, Hanoi WorldBank 1997. Variety of inputs to rural policy: focus upon rural institutions (cooperatives) and important markets: sugar, fertiliser, rice, cashews, coffee.

Public Administration Reform in Ho Chi Minh City - A report on the "Vietnamese process", with suggestions for how to support it , Report forGovernmentCommitteeonOrganisationandPersonnel, Hanoi UNDP 1996. Detailed study of the local administrative system with proposals for policy development and external support.

Vietnam : Support to Rural Development Planning , PolicyDepartment, MinistryofAgricultureandRuralDevelopment, HanoiUNDP 1996. Led Vietnamese research teams to look at emerging policy problems.

Vietnam to 2005EIU 1995. Publication.

Economic Reforms in LaosSida 1995. Report.

Socio-economic Context of Upland Development in VietnamUNDP 1995. Report.

Assessment of the Income-generating Activities of the Vietnam Red CrossDanish Red Cross and IFRC 1995. Report analysing income generating activities by local branches of the Vietnam Red Cross.

Poverty in VietnamSida 1995. Translated and published as Van de ngheo o Viet nam, Nha xuat Ban chinh tri Quoc gia, Hanoi 1996. Report.

The Vietnamese Budgetary SystemSida 1993. Detailed examination of the technical aspects of the Vietnamese budgetary system, focusing upon disbursement procedures.

The Role of Top-Level Research Institutes in Policy FormationSida 1993. Report, based upon extensive fieldwork.

Modern Economics and Vietnam - Roundtable HanoiSida and OXFAM (with The Vietnam Educational Trust) 1993. Organised conference to introduce these new topics to a Vietnamese policy-making audience.

Vietnam - an economy in transitionSida 1988. Path-breaking report.

Forestry workers in Vietnam - a study of living and working conditionsSida 1987. Report based upon extensive fieldwork.


Publications

Books

  1. Tu ke hoach den thi truong: su chuyen bien kinh te tai Viet Nam , with Stefan de Vylder, Hanoi: Nha xuat ban Chinh tri quoc gia ( translation of From Plan to Market...), 1997. (No ISBN #)
  2. Doi Moi - Ten years after the 1986 Party Congress , Ed. Adam Fforde, Political and Social Change Monograph 24, Canberra: Australian National University, 1997. ISBN 0 7315 2674.
  3. From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam , with Stefan de Vylder, Boulder CO: Westview, 1996. ASIN: 0813326834
  4. From Centrally Planned to Market Economies: The Asian Approach , Vol 3 Part 3 - Vietnam, with Stefan de Vylder, Oxford: ADB/Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0195866045
  5. The Agrarian Question in North Vietnam 1974-79: a study of cooperator resistance to State policy , New York: M.E.Sharpe, 1989. ISBN: 0873324862
  6. Vietnam - an economy in transition , with Stefan de Vylder, Stockholm: SIDA 1988. (ISBN n/a).
  7. The Limits of National Liberation - problems of economic management in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with a Statistical Appendix (with the late Mrs S.H.Paine), London: Croom-Helm 1987. ISBN: 0709910363

Academic papers published

  1. ‘ Vietnam in 2004: popular authority seeking power’, forthcoming, Asian Survey 45:1 January/February 2005.
  2. ‘Persuasion: Reflections on Economics, Data and the ‘Homogeneity Assumption’ , Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Methodology, early 2005
  3. ‘ Vietnam in 2003: the road to un-governability?’ AsianSurvey 44:1 January/February 2004.
  4. ‘Light within the ASEAN gloom? The Vietnamese economy since the first Asian Economic Crisis (1997) and in the light of the 2001 downturn’ SoutheastAsianAffairs 2002.
  5. ‘Resourcing conservative transition in Vietnam: rent-switching and resource appropriation’ Post-Communist Economies Vol 14 No 2 June 2002.
  6. ‘The origins of the market economy in Vietnam: A comment and some questions on the reform of domestic trade’ with Melanie Beresford, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics Dec 1997.
  7. ‘Vietnamese commerce: the 'Tiger on a Bicycle' syndrome’ Columbia Journal of World Business Winter 1993.
  8. ‘Socio-economic differentiation in a mature collectivised agriculture - North Vietnamese agricultural producer cooperatives in the mid 1970's’ Sociological Ruralis October 1987.
  9. 'The unimplementability of policy and the notion of law in Vietnamese Communist thought' Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science no. 1 1986.
  10. ‘In Response to Jane Werner's Socialist Development: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Vietnam’ Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars No.1: January- March 1985.
  11. ‘Law and socialist agricultural development in Vietnam: the Statute for Agricultural Producer Cooperatives’ Review of Socialist Law no. 10, 1984.

Academic papers published in edited collections

  1. ‘SOEs, Law and a Decade of Market-Oriented Socialist Development in Vietnam’, (forthcoming 2004) in Ed P. Nicholson and J. Gillespie Asian Socialism and Legal Change: The Dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform Canberra: Asia Pacific Press.
  2. ‘ Vietnam - Culture and Economy: Dyed-in-the-Wool Tigers?’ in Ed Mandy Thomas and Lisa Drummond Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam London: Routledge 2003.
  3. ‘The Institutions of Transition from Central-planning - the Case of Vietnam’ in Ed Colin Barlow Institutions and Economic Change in Southeast Asia: the Context of Development from the 1960s to the 1990s Cheltenham: Elgar 2000. ISBN: 1858987261
  4. ‘The transition from plan to market: China and Vietnam compared’ in Ed. Ben Kerkvliet et al Transforming Asian Socialism: China and Vietnam Compared, Canberra: Allen and Unwin 1999. ISBN: 0847698475
  5. ‘The Vietnamese economy in 1996 - events and trends - the limits of Doi Moi?’ in Ed Adam Fforde Doi Moi - Ten years after the 1986 Party Congress Political and Social Change Monograph 24 Canberra: Australian National University 1997. ISBN 0 7315 2674.
  6. ‘The Economy and the Countryside’ with Steve Seneque in Vietnam 's Rural Transformation Eds Benjamin Kerkvliet and Doug Porter Boulder CO: Westview Press/ISEAS 1995. ASIN: 081338950X
  7. ‘From Centrally Planned to Market Economies: The Asian Approach Vol 3 Part 3 – Vietnam’ with Stefan de Vylder Oxford: ADB/Oxford University Press 1996. ISBN: 0195866045
  8. Comment on Melanie Beresford ‘Vietnamese Marxism and the Transition to a Market Economy in Ed Peter Groenewegen and Bruce MacFarlane Socialist thought in the post Cold War era Sydney: Centre of the study of the History of Economic Thought University of Sydney 1995.
  9. ‘The political economy of 'reform' in Vietnam - some reflections’ in Ed B. Ljunggren The Challenge of Reform in Indochina Cambridge MA: Harvard U.P. 1993.
  10. ‘Some reflections on Vietnam's experience with the successful commercialisation of a neo-Stalinist economic system, 1979- 89’ in Ed. Brian Brogan et al Doi moi Canberra: ANU 1991.
  11. ‘The Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the twelve months since mid 1988 - major policy changes and socio-economic developments’ in Ed Per Ronnas and Orjan Sjoberg Doi moi - Economic Reforms and Development Policies in Vietnam Stockholm: SIDA 1990.
  12. ‘Vietnamese agriculture - changing property rights in a mature collectivised agriculture’ in Ed Karl-Eugene Wadekin Communist agriculture: Farming in the Far East and Cuba’ London: Routledge 1989.
  13. ‘Collectivisation of wet-rice cultivation - some reflections on Vietnamese experience’ in Ed J.C.Brada and K.-E.Wadekin Organisational responses to failing performance: socialist agriculture in crisis Boulder CO: Westview 1987.
  14. ‘Economic aspects of Soviet-Vietnamese relations: their role and importance’ in Ed Robert Cassen Soviet interests in the Third World London: Sage 1985.

Other academic work and significant work-in-progress:

Discussion papers

  1. ‘State owned enterprises, law and a decade of market-oriented socialist development in Vietnam’ Working Paper Series # 70 September 2004 SEARC City University of Hong Kong. http://www.cityu.edu.hk/searc/WP70_04_Fforde.pdf
  2. ‘ Vietnamese State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) - “Real Property”, Commercial Performance and Political Economy’ Working Paper Series # 69 August 2004 SEARC City University of Hong Kong. http://www.cityu.edu.hk/searc/WP69_04_Fforde.pdf
  3. ‘Regional Development in Vietnam: Local Dynamics, Market Forces and State Policies’ with Hy Van Luong, Eastern Asia Policy Papers 13 JCPAS University of Toronto-York University 1996.
  4. ‘Industrial development in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam) and the historical background to developments during the post reunification period’ Disc. Paper 87/2 Dept. of Economics Birkbeck College London 1987.
  5. ‘Reflections on the Vietnamese Socialist Revolution: - the problem of plan non-implementability and the difficulty involved in realising Socialist Construction in a Low-income Socialist Developing Country’ Disc. Paper 168 Dept. of Economics Birkbeck College London 1985
  6. ‘The historical background to agricultural collectivisation in North Vietnam’ (1981, mimeo and rev.'d 1983) Disc. Paper 148 Dept. of Economics Birkbeck College London 1984.
  7. ‘ Macroeconomic adjustment and structural change in a low-income Socialist developing country - an analytical model’ Disc. Paper 163 Dept. of Economics Birkbeck College London 1984.

Papers submitted to journals or in-progress

  1. Policy rationality and the 'intellectual limitations of the leadership' - Understanding Conservative Transition , Submitted to journal, 2004.
  2. How to analyse ‘endogenous’ processes of transition from plan to market: rents, rent-switching and resource appropriation , Submitted to journal, 2004. Now under revision.
  3. Relations of production, relations of reproduction and the contested meanings of systemic change: a contribution from Vietnamese experience , Submitted to journal, 2004. Now under revision.
  4. ’Old wine in new bottles?’ Extension and service delivery organisations for small farmers in rural mountain regions of north Vietnam . Submitted to Journal, 2004. Now under revision.
  5. Vietnamese Farmers’ Organisations, with Nguyen Dinh Huan - CERUDEV/NISTPASS, Hanoi, AARES Conference, Adelaide, 2001. Submitted to journal, 2004. Now under revision.
  6. The historical origins of Vietnam’s successful economic liberalisation – understanding spontaneous change in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). Paper completed, comments from peers received, and now under revision.
  7. Vulnerable Groups in Vietnam: state and societal responses in a post- transition society, In-progress.
  8. Understanding North Vietnam’s rural liberalisation: a review of evidence from village studies and household surveys , In-progress.
  9. The political analysis of contemporary Vietnam – a review , In-progress. With Martin Gainsborough. Due for completion 2005.

Books in-progress

Other work


Societies

American Economic Association; Royal Economics Society; Vietnam Studies Association of Australia; Development Studies Association

Some comments from reviewers

Doi Moi - Ten years after the 1986 Party Congress , Ed. Adam Fforde, Political and Social Change Monograph 24, Canberra: Australian National University, 1997.

Pacific Affairs Fall 1998, pp: 441-442, Robert L. Curry, Jr.: “… a first-rate, tremendously interesting book. It contains so many useful points that covering more than a critical few of them is an impossible task. However, this brief review hopefully will encourage potential readers to consult Fforde’s superb volume”.

From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam , with Stefan de Vylder, Boulder CO: Westview, 1996.

Journal of Economic Literature Sept 2000, pp: 683-684, Trien T. Nguyen: “The book is thought-provoking! Although the scope is Vietnam-specific, there are far-reaching implications for reforms of transition economies in general. The authors offer an alternative “bottom-up” view … Although the Vietnamese transition is still in process and more work remains to be done in this area of research, this book makes a valuable pioneering contribution to the specialized field of Vietnamese studies as well as to the broader area of development economies.”

Asian Pacific Economic Literature 1998, David Elliot: “From Plan to Market is a superb exposition and analysis of Vietnam’s transition …[with] some shrewd and informed speculation on the politics underlying the changes. … This work has admirably described and analysed the economic transformation of the past two decades in Vietnam, and is an indispensable work for anyone wishing to understand contemporary Vietnam.”

Journal of Asian Studies Nov 1997, pp: 1160-1162, Gary Larsen: “This book is one of the first, and certainly most complete, attempts to chronicle the transition in Vietnam from a planned to a market economy. However, it also reaches beyond mere description of an economic transformation and attempts to develop a framework or model for reform in general, identifying its internal logic …”

Development and Change Jan 1997, pp: 190-191, George Irvin: “… this is a very good book indeed, as accessible for the generalist as it is for the specialist.”

The Agrarian Question in North Vietnam 1974-79: a study of cooperator resistance to State policy , New York: M.E.Sharpe, 1989.

Journal of Economic Literature May 1991 pp.124-126, Frederic L. Pryor: “Fforde’s book … provides an extremely useful analysis of the internal operations of the collective farms … [it] provides a wealth of detail of the internal operations of such farms … and is a useful addition to the literature”.

Journal of Asian Studies Nov 1990 pp.992-993, William J. Duiker: “… as Adam Fforde shows us in this groundbreaking study, outward appearances can be deceiving, for under the surface peasant resistance to official policy has been undermining the system from the beginning. [He] has provided readers with an inside look at the system and much food for thought …”

The Limits of National Liberation - problems of economic management in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with a Statistical Appendix (with the late Mrs S.H.Paine), London: Croom-Helm 1987.

International Affairs, Spring 1988 p: 316, John Main: “…this book is … very welcome. It will be of value to those with an interest in Vietnamese communism and also, for comparative purposes … and … represents in itself a substantial contribution to Vietnamese studies…”


Teaching and Research Supervision

Teaching

Centre for Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne, II 2003 and I 2004 - Masters course (various degrees including Public Policy and Development Studies), Comparative Development Policy (with reference to SEA)

Dept of Economics, University of Melbourne, I 2004 - Masters Course, Asian Economies

Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. 2000-2001

Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1993-1996
Module on Contemporary Economics and Politics in Vietnam (with Prof Ben Kerkvliet) 1996;
Lectures on Contemporary Vietnamese Economic History and the Transition from Central Planning 1993.

Australian Defence College, 1990s
Various classes and seminars

Prices and Markets Institute, Hanoi, 1990
Various localities, lectures on 'Equity companies and Capital markets' (in Vietnamese).

Department of Economics, Cambridge University, 1979-1981
Classes in Economic Development, International Economics, Cost-benefit Analysis and Economic Statistics.

Dept. of Foreign Languages, English Section, Hanoi University, 1979
Classes in English Language and Comprehension.

Research supervision

PhD
Andrew Hardy, 1999 (advisor), A History of Migration to Upland Areas in Twentieth Century Vietnam, ANU.

MA (by thesis)
Dang Dinh Trung (2001), The Peasant economy in Transition: A Case Study of the Ede ethnic minority in Daklak , Vietnam , NUS.
Tran thi Phi Phuong (2001), Reconciling work commitment and family life among married professional women in Ho Chi Minh City, NUS.

BAHonours Theses
Wendy Low, 2000, Cyclo drivers, NUS
Aileen Ang Chui Ling, 2001, Women’s access to housing and land rights in rural Vietnam, NUS.
Lim Siew Lee, 2001, Authority and decision-making in rural Vietnamese families, NUS.
Ingrid Landau , 2004, Re-Organising Labour: Workers, Trade Unions and the Party-State in Transitional Vietnam, University of Melbourne.

MA Module Theses
Clara Netina Tan Chiew Pheng, 2000, Feminist consciousness in Singapore, NUS.
Gary Chan, 2000, Law, development and the state in Vietnam, NUS.
Erik Ford , 2001, Pirated software in Singapore, NUS
Valerie Teo , 2001, The Fourth Indochinese war: Development Dominoes and the Containment of Capitalism, NUS.
Ng Suk Nyan, 2001, Water Management: Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Darul Ehsan ,NUS.
Jess ica Ludwig , 2001, The idea of working and ageing in Singapore – An analysis, NUS.


Other Work

Extension and service delivery organisations for small farmers in rural mountain regions of north Vietnam , Paper delivered at Larenstein workshop, north Vietnam, October 2003.

SOEs, Law and a Decade of Market-Oriented Socialist Development in Vietnam , Paper for Conference: Law and Governance: Socialist Transforming Vietnam. The Asian Law Centre and the School of Law at Deakin University, at the Melbourne Law School from 12-13 June 2003.

Vietnamese Farmers’ Organisations, with Nguyen Dinh Huan, CERUDEV/NISTPASS, Hanoi, AARES Conference, Adelaide, 2001.

The transition from plan to market - a model of spontaneous liberalisation and endogenous change , mimeo, 2001.

Vulnerable Groups in Vietnam: state and societal responses in a post- transition society, Conference Paper, NUS/ASEAN Universities Conference, 2001.

Vietnam and the outlook for long-term economic expansion , SAIS/Johns Hopkins conference on Vietnam, Nov 2000.

Vietnam’s development and the problem of development doctrine , seminar, SEASP, NUS, 2000.

The current situation in Vietnam , PARC/Stanford, Nov 2000.

The Vietnamese people and the shift to a market economy: perspectives , seminar paper, Griffiths University and ANU, 1999.

Vietnam - Culture and Economy: Dyed-in-the-Wool Tigers?, Paper at 1999 Vietnam Update Conference, Australian National University, Canberra.

Strategic Issues in Vietnamese Development Policy: State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), Agricultural Cooperatives and Public Administration Reform (PAR ), Seminar Paper - Dept of Political and Social Change, RSPAS, ANU 1998; also Monash Centre for SEA Studies, 1998.

‘Economic Growth and Institutional Development in Contemporary Vietnam’, AVRP Monograph Series # 1: Vietnam's Transition to a Market Economy - An Introduction to Theoretical and Empirical Issues; Macquarie/ANU 1997, Ed Adam Fforde

Vietnam - a transitional society? - Comparisons with China , Paper to Asian Studies Association of Australia Annual Conference - 'Communication with/in Asia', Melbourne 1996.

Pork, Periodisation and Primitive Accumulation: Reform Sequencing - Myths and Realities in Vietnam and China , Workshop 'Transforming Asian Socialism', ANU Canberra 1995.

Public goods, the State, Civil Society and Development Assistance in Vietnam: Opportunities and Prospects , with Porter, Doug, Paper presented to 'Doi Moi, the State and Civil Society: Vietnam Update 1994 Conference, Canberra 10-11 November 1994.

Vietnam : A tiger on a bicycle , Vietnam Investment Review 16/08/93

The Institutions of Transition from Central-planning - the Case of Vietnam , Canberra, December 1st 1992, Paper given at ANU Canberra, December 1992, and AEA Annual Conference, Anaheim, California January 1993.

Non-academic publications

Agriculture in Vietnam: Impacts in South East Asia of the economic crisis, Canberra: AusAID 1999.

Vietnam: Economic Commentary and Analysis - a regular independent review published by Aduki Pty Ltd and sold through commercial subscription. First issue produced April 1992; publication stopped in 1999. Subscribers included Embassies, International Companies, Academics and Aid Organisations.

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