17 research outputs found
Vietnam Following in China?s Footsteps: The Third Wave of Emerging Asian Economies
Vietnam has been following China?s path closely and very successfully for the last two decades, since the adoption of ?Doi moi? in 1986. Over those last two decades, economic growth rates in both countries have been the highest worldwide (with GDP growing by 8 per cent and 10 per cent per year, respectively). The increase of the Vietnamese share of world trade is the highest of all major Asian exporters (including China) since the mid-1990s. In the current international context, doubts have been raised by some economists concerning the possibility for new Asian countries to take-off and join the group of emerging countries. Several obstacles might block this emergence, such as the rise of China and the stringent rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper addresses this question with regard to Vietnam, who joined the WTO at the beginning of 2007: we study Vietnam?s potential for sustainable growth and international integration. We start by briefly describing economic reform and trade policies in Vietnam, and their results in terms of economic growth and world integration. We then analyse Vietnamese trade specialization and the bilateral relationship with China. Finally, we assess the competition between Vietnam and China on world markets, and show that the export structures are very different. Both countries have benefited from a boom in their textile and clothing exports following the cessation of quotas (in the case of China) and the signing of USBTA (in the case of Vietnam). For Vietnam, reducing the specialization in textiles and clothing, and joining the Asian production network in electronics, represents a major challenge.export-led growth, WTO, Vietnam, China
Le circuit intégré du sud-est asiatique
Depuis plusieurs annĂ©es, industrie Ă©lectronique rime avec Sud-Est Asiatique. NaguĂšre cette industrie consistait parfois en une juxtaposition dâusines « footlosse » situĂ©es dans une enclave Ă©trangĂšre oĂč sâaffairaient des « petites mains » agiles et sous-payĂ©es. Depuis quelques annĂ©es, lâapparition de produits corĂ©ens ou taĂŻwanais sur les rayons Hi-Fi des supermarchĂ©s amĂ©ricains ou europĂ©ens a contribuĂ© Ă prendre la mesure de lâessor industriel de ces pays qui depuis ont fait une percĂ©e remarqu..
Taiwan, un parcours sans faute
Chaponniere Jean-Raphaël. Taiwan, un parcours sans faute. In: Matériaux pour l'histoire de notre temps, n°45, 1997. ModÚles d'Asie : En Asie aujourd'hui, des réussites économiques, pour quelles sociétés ? sous la direction de René Girault . pp. 24-29
Tanzania-China all-weather friendship from socialism to globalization: a case of relative decline
Includes bibliographyHow close is the Tanzanian-Chinese partnership today? Bi-lateral trade and Chinese economic
activity in Tanzania today is far more significant than in the 1970s; Chinaâs âno strings attachedâ
policy is still attractive and political solidarities and military co-operation have remained relatively
strong. However, this bi-lateral relationship does not have the importance, nor the exclusiveness it
enjoyed in the heydays of socialism. Today, China must compete economically, politically and
culturally with the activism and soft power of a larger group of countries, particularly the United
States. Although both in Dar es Salaam and in Beijing this relationship is still presented as
âspecialâ, it has lost the structural role that it had until the late 1970s in shaping Sino-African
relations. Growing Sino-American and Sino-Western competition in Africa has increased
Tanzaniaâs option and helped it, to some extent, to better defend its own interests. This paper
examines Tanzanian-Chinese relations over the past half century and more particularly since 2005,
highlighting how global political, strategic and economic shifts have affected and on the whole
reduced, in relative terms, the importance of this bi-lateral relationshiphttp://www.ccs.org.za/?cat=6
Le « modÚle » Taiwanais
PeuplĂ©e de 19 millions dâhabitants, TaĂŻwan a une superficie comparable Ă celle de la Suisse et les trois-quart de cette Ăźle tropicale sont montagneux. SituĂ©e Ă 150 kilomĂštres au large des cĂŽtes chinoises, TaĂŻwan a Ă©tĂ© progressivement peuplĂ©e par des immigrants de la Chine Continentale en provenance de la province du Fukien. A lâissue de la guerre sino-japonaise, le Japon sâest emparĂ© de TaĂŻwan quâil a restituĂ© Ă la Chine aprĂšs un demi-siĂšcle de colonisation (1895-1945). Depuis 1949, TaĂŻwan, d..
La Malaisie, victime du découplement ?
Une sociĂ©tĂ© multiraciale On recense 16 millions dâhabitants en Malaisie, mais la population malaise (les Bumiputras ou enfants de la terre) est tout juste majoritaire dans son pays oĂč un citoyen sur trois est dâorigine chinoise et un sur dix indien. Cette structure multiraciale est un legs de la pĂ©riode coloniale. Lâadministration britannique a facilitĂ© lâimmigration de coolies chinois pour la mise en valeur des mines dâĂ©tain et, plus tard, les plantations dâhĂ©vĂ©as ont recrutĂ© des travailleur..