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 années, industrie électronique rime avec Sud-Est Asiatique. Naguère cette industrie consistait parfois en une juxtaposition d’usines « footlosse » situées dans une enclave étrangère où s’affairaient des « petites mains » agiles et sous-payées. Depuis quelques années, l’apparition de produits coréens ou taïwanais sur les rayons Hi-Fi des supermarchés américains ou européens a contribué à prendre la mesure de l’essor industriel de ces pays qui depuis ont fait une percée 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. Modèles 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; China’s “no strings attached” 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 “special”, 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 Tanzania’s 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 « modèle » Taiwanais

Peuplée de 19 millions d’habitants, Taïwan a une superficie comparable à celle de la Suisse et les trois-quart de cette île tropicale sont montagneux. Située à 150 kilomètres au large des côtes chinoises, Taïwan a été progressivement peuplée par des immigrants de la Chine Continentale en provenance de la province du Fukien. A l’issue de la guerre sino-japonaise, le Japon s’est emparé de Taïwan qu’il a restitué à la Chine après un demi-siècle de colonisation (1895-1945). Depuis 1949, Taïwan, d..

La Malaisie, victime du découplement ?

Une société multiraciale On recense 16 millions d’habitants en Malaisie, mais la population malaise (les Bumiputras ou enfants de la terre) est tout juste majoritaire dans son pays où un citoyen sur trois est d’origine chinoise et un sur dix indien. Cette structure multiraciale est un legs de la période coloniale. L’administration britannique a facilité l’immigration de coolies chinois pour la mise en valeur des mines d’étain et, plus tard, les plantations d’hévéas ont recruté des travailleur..