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Sasakawa Peace Foundation - USA
Asian Vocies: Promoting Dialogue between the U. S. and Asia
"Is Vietnam a Market Economy?
Recent Reforms and Agenda" Prospects
Featured Speakers
Dr. Chi D. Pham
CEO
Potomac Investments and Research Associates
Discussants:
Dr. Naranhkiri Tith
President
Political and Financial Risks Consultancy
Dr. Viet Vu
Senior Statistician
United Nations
Moderator:
Dr. G. John Ikenberry
Peter F. Krogh Professor of Global Justice
Georgetown University
February 13th, 2003
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
at
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Choate Room
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
Reception Will Follow the Seminar
RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED
For information or to register for this event please contact Seminar Program at 202-296-6694 or at seminar@spfusa.org
The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program is supported by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
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About this Seminar
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A current controversy in Vietnam-U.S. trade relations is whether Vietnam is a market or non-market economy after more than a decade of important economic reforms. Dr. Pham argues that Vietnam has implemented successfully several monetary and fiscal policies as well as price and wage decontrols to set up a working market economy in its early stages. But it is an unfinished agenda due to sluggish structural and institutional reforms in recent years. He will conclude that the political economy would have to be addressed by Vietnam with bold policies such as those adopted by China to recognize both the political and economic roles of the private sector, were Vietnam to achieve an advanced market economy.
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About the Panelists
-Main Speaker
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Dr. Chi D. Pham is CEO of Potomac Investments and Research Associates. He was visiting professor of economics and finance at the Kogod School of Business at American University and a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He also has been an instructor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and IMF resident representative in Togo and Laos. He has lectured extensively in North America, Asia and Africa. Dr. Pham received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Laval University. He recently co-edited two books, The Vietnamese Economy: Awakening the Dormant Dragon (2003) and The Challenges of Integration (2002). Dr. Pham has also edited two books on the Lao economy and published a number of IMF country studies and research papers, as well as a memoir and several short essays in Vietnamese.
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Discussants
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Dr. Viet Vu is head of the research group on national accounts methodology with the United Nations Statistics Division. Before he was a senior statistician at the United Nations, where he served as a consultant on national accounts statistics to various counties in Asia. He has been a technical advisor on UNDP-supported national accounts projects for Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, was an economist at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and was a research scientist at New York University's Institute for Economic Analysis. Dr. Vu received a Ph.D. from New York University and a B.A. from California State University. His publications include National Accounts: A Practical Introduction (forthcoming), Economy of Vietnam in Reform 1990-2000 (2002), and Handbook on Links between Business Accounting and National Accounting (2000).
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About the Seminar Program
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The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program seeks to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within the Washington community-voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. The Seminar Program, however, will not be restricted solely to Asia-Pacific issues, or US-Japan relations, but will focus on the broader global questions that confront both parts of the world.
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