Edmund Malesky on Vietnam's Equitable Redistribution of Resources
Vietnam: Urban-rural divide could stunt progress
11/23/2011
Ben Bland,
Financial Times
Earlier this month, several dozen Vietnamese-American pro-democracy campaigners travelled to Hawaii to protest against human rights abuses in their former homeland. Their target was Truong Tan Sang, the Vietnamese president, who was attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Honolulu.
Waving the old flag of South Vietnam – yellow with three red horizontal stripes – they called for the release of jailed activists and internet bloggers, and an end to the communist dictatorship. The country's paranoid internal security officials constantly fret about the influence of the boisterous overseas Vietnamese groups who still fly the flag for the US-backed southern regime ousted by communist-run North Vietnam in 1975.
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Edmund Malesky can comment on political development in Vietnam and China, as well as comparative political economy in Southeast Asia. He also can provide insight into the choices underlying the decisions of foreign investors and thereby the globalization debate, especially in regard to the discussion of "sweatshops" in developing countries.
