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Foreword
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- By Laurent Pandolfi, Cooperation Centre for Urban Development (IMV), Tran Van Luu, Cooperation Centre for Urban Development (IMV), Ludovic Dewaele, chez Legrand Urtizberea, Fanny Quertamp Nguyen, Ho Chi Minh City Urban Development Management Support Centre (PADDI), David Margonstern, Asian Development Bank, Nguyen Hong Van, Ho Chi Minh City Urban Development Management Support Centre (PADDI)
- Edited by Patrick Gubry, Franck Castiglioni, Jean-Michel Cusset, Nguyen Thi Thieng, Pham Thuy Huong
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- The Vietnamese City in Transition
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- ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
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- 21 October 2015
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- 11 February 2010, pp xv-xvi
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Summary
The present work was undertaken as part of two cooperation programmes between French and Vietnamese local governments: one involving the Ile-de-France Region and Hanoi People's Committee, the other the Rhone-Alpes Region and Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee. It was published with financial support from the Cooperation and Cultural Action Office (SCAC) of the French Embassy in Vietnam. Gathered here are the main results obtained by the Franco-Vietnamese research teams involved in the Urban Research Programme for Development (PRUD) funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As the outcome of joint concertation, it illustrates the coherence between the various French cooperation programmes in Vietnam.
The research presented here attempts to define the issues at stake in urban development in Vietnam under the economic and demographic push induced by the transition from a centralized planned economy to a globalized market economy, and by strong urban population growth. Processes at work such as international integration and fast-growing metropolisation, speeded up economic development, devolution/decentralization of urban management authorities, modernization of housing patterns, poorly controlled peri-urban urbanization, mutations in the management of urban services, etc., all require strengthening of skills for urban project management and local government.
To respond to this need, IMV (Cooperation Centre for Urban Development) was created by Hanoi People's Committee and the Ile-de-France Region in 2001. PADDI (Ho Chi Minh City Urban Development Management Support Centre) was founded in 2004 by Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and Rhone-Alpes Regional Council. Both organizations are jointly headed in situ by representatives from each collectivity and are responsible for developing programmes in such areas as continuing education aimed at government cadres specialized in urban management, consultancy and technical expertise, investment in pilot operations and pilot infrastructures projects, assistance to consultancy firms and BPW companies, and for promoting Vietnamese and French research in the field of urbanism.
5 - Changes in Public Water Management: Transition, Compromise, and Innovation
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- By Claude De Miras, Université de Provence, Fanny Quertamp Nguyen, Appartement B 306 79 quai Panhard et Levassor 75013 Paris, France
- Edited by Patrick Gubry, Franck Castiglioni, Jean-Michel Cusset, Nguyen Thi Thieng, Pham Thuy Huong
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- Book:
- The Vietnamese City in Transition
- Published by:
- ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
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- 21 October 2015
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- 11 February 2010, pp 133-166
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For nearly two decades now, the “decentralization, privatization and liberalization” triangle touted in adjustment policies has become the new paradigm for development in all parts of the world. Yet, effective implementation of institutional decentralization coupled with an appeal to the private sector to promote open competition and growth is failing to impact all countries uniformly. A case in point is Vietnam with its socialist-oriented market economy. Is it going through a gradual transition towards a liberal economy? Compromising between internal constraints and external demands? Or, rather, going the way of innovation, seeking a specific model that has not yet fully taken shape?
In Vietnam, the “transition/compromise/innovation” pathways are fraught with complexity and uncertainty, something we can confirm by taking a look at urban water distribution.
To begin with, in the early 1990s transition was the buzzword in neoliberal strategies applied to contexts that were still recently collectivist. Transition was needed on two fronts — from collectivism to capitalism and from underdevelopment to development. But it is noteworthy that the transformations that took place in Vietnam (Doi Moi, 1986) predated generalization of the notion of transition. Chronologically, the notion of transition was not the force behind the remake that took place in the late 1980s. Rather, it sprung from new national public policy directions and gave them a meaning they did not previously have (the march to liberalism). The transition idea in a way came to the rescue in a story of radical upheavals, the like of which had not been planned or anticipated. But perhaps not wanting to lose out on any new history-making advancement and convinced that valuable lessons could be learned from the recent remake, it was thought that transition should be something predictable and applicable to social action in general.
From both the economic and political standpoint, the concept of transition came to mean both a liberal and democratic model that had become unavoidable and toward which economically collectivist countries were invited to turn.