Division of Economic and Financial Studies

Melanie Beresford - Publications

Publications

Books

Towards Gender Budgeting for Vietnam, Women Publishers, Hanoi, 2005, 159 pp. (also in Vietnamese as Toi Ngan Sach theo Gioi tai Viet Nam, 188 pp.)

Reaching for the Dream: challenges of sustainable development in Vietnam, (edited with Tran Ngoc Angie), NIAS Press, Copenhagen, 2004

Economic Transition in Vietnam: foreign aid and trade in the demise of a centrally planned economy, with Dang Phong, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK, 2000, 165 pp.

Authority Relations and Economic Decision-Making in Vietnam: an historical perspective (with Dang Phong), Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, 1998, 117 pp.

National Unification and Economic Development in Vietnam, Macmillan, London, 1989, 296 pp.

Vietnam: Politics, Economics and Society, Frances Pinter, London, 1988, 242 pp.

A Manual of Political Economy (with B. McFarlane), Karrel Inc., Quezon City, Philippines, 1985, 201 pp.

Monographs

Impact of Macroeconomic Reform on Women in Vietnam, United Nations Development Fund for Women, New York, 52 pp. Also appeared in the same year in Vietnamese as Anh Huong cua Cai Cach Kinh Te Vi Mo doi voi Phu Nu o Viet Nam, UNDP/UNIFEM and Vietnam Women's Union, Hanoi, 1997, 64 pp.

Refereed journal articles

Doi Moi in Review: the challenges of building market socialism in Vietnam, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38:2, 2008

Cambodia in 2004: an artificial democratization, Asian Survey, 43:1, 2005

Role of the state in the Vietnamese transition: the process of state enterprise reform, Business and Society, 1:1, 2000

The Labour Movement of Vietnam (with Chris Nyland), Labour History, no. 75, November, pp. 57-80, 1998

A methodology for analysing the process of economic reform in Vietnam: the case of domestic trade (with Adam Fforde), Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 13:4, December, pp. 99-128, 1997 .

Regionalism and Regional Inequality in Vietnam and China (with B. McFarlane), Journal of Contemporary Asia, 25:1, pp. 50-72, 1995

The North Vietnamese State-Owned Industrial Sector: Continuity and Change, Journal of Communist Studies, March, pp. 55-76, 1995

The Vietnamese Economy 1979-93: Reforming or Revolutionising Asian Socialism? Asian Studies Review, 17:2, November, pp. 33-46, 1993

Industrial Relations in ASEAN and other Capitalist Countries (with Diana Kelly), Economic and Industrial Democracy (Stockholm), 14:1, pp. 89-107, 1993

Political Economy of the Environment in Vietnam (with Lyn Fraser), Journal of Contemporary Asia, 22:1, pp. 3-19, 1992

Vietnam: Socialist Agriculture in Transition, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 20:4, pp. 466-86, 1990

Vietnam: Northernising the South or Southernising the North?, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol.8, No.4, March, pp. 261-275, 1987

Household and Collective in Vietnamese Agriculture, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.15, No.1, pp. 5-36, 1985

America's New Pacific Rim Strategy (with R. Catley and F. Pilkington), Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol.9, No. 1, pp. 67-74, 1979

The Subtle Anatomy of Capital (review article), Arena, No. 50, pp. 136-50, 1978

Doomsayers and Eco-nuts: A Critique of the Ecology Movement, Politics, Vol. XII, No. 1, May, pp. 98-106, 1977

The 'Technocratic Labor' Thesis: a Critique, Arena, No. 39, 1975

Book chapters

‘Cambodia’ in Anis Chowdhury and Iyanatul Islam (eds), Handbook on the Northeast and Southeast Asian Economies, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA, USA, pp. 243-258, 2007

'Vietnam: the Transition from Central Planning' (revised) in G. Rodan, R.Robison and (eds) The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Conflicts, Crises and Change, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp.206-32, 2006

'Impact of regional integration on Vietnam's transition economy', Melba E. Falck and David S.G. Goodman (eds.) The Domestic Economic Impact of Regional Integration on the Countries of the Pacific Rim, University of Guadalajara Press, Mexico 2004

'Uneven development: the impact of Vietnam's economic reforms on regional inequality' in Hy Van Luong (ed.) Postwar Vietnam: dynamics of a transforming society, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham MD, and ISEAS, Singapore, 2003

'Vietnam: the Transition from Central Planning' (revised) in R.Robison and G. Rodan (eds) The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Conflicts, Crises and Change, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp.206-32, 2001

'Democracy and Power in a Transitional One-Party Culture' (with Irene Norlund) in Ing-Britt Trankell and Laura Summers (eds), Facets of Power and its Limitations: Political Culture in Southeast Asia, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala, pp. 65-79, 1998

'Market Socialism in Southeast Asia: Economics, Society and Politics in Vietnam 1975-96' (with Bruce McFarlane) in Kyoko Sheridan (ed.), Emerging Systems in Asia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 231-255, 1998

1997 'Vietnam: the Transition from Plan to Market' in R. Robison and G. Rodan (eds) Introduction to the Political Economy of Southeast Asia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 179-204

'Theoretical Debates on the Socialist Economy during the Current Reforms in Vietnam' in P. Groenewegen and B. McFarlane (eds) Socialist Thought in the Post Cold War Era, Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers and Centre for the Study of the History of Economic Thought, Manila and Sydney, pp. 93-104, 1994

'Dismantling the 'Bureaucratic Subsidy System' in Vietnam' in Richard Robison and Kevin Hewison (eds), Southeast Asia in the 1990s, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 215-36, 1993

'The Impact of Economic Reforms in the South' in Dean K. Forbes, Terence H. Hull, David G. Marr and Brian Brogan (eds), Doi Moi: Vietnam's Renovation Policy and Performance, Australian National University, Political and Social Change Monograph 14, Canberra, pp. 118-135, 1991

'Industrial Reform in Vietnam', in Ian Jeffries (ed.), Industrial Reform in Socialist Countries: from Restructuring to Revolution, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, pp. 237-56, 1991

'Vietnam's Trade with the Non-Communist World' in Peter Limqueco (ed.), Partisan Scholarship: Essays in Honour of Renato Constantino, JCA Publishers, Manila, pp. 411-19, 1989

'Issues in Economic Unification: Overcoming the Legacy of Separation', in David G. Marr and Christine P. White (eds), Postwar Vietnam: Dilemmas in Socialist Development, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, pp. 95-110, 1988

'Socialist Markets' in C. Mackerras, R. Cribb and A. Healy (eds), Contemporary Vietnam: Perspectives from Australia, University of Wollongong Press, Wollongong, pp. 105-117, 1988

'Agriculture in the Transition to Socialism: the Case of South Vietnam', in Mats Lundahl (ed.), The Primary Sector in Economic Development, Croom Helm, London, pp. 370-95, 1985

'A Turning Point for Australia, 1942-52' (with Prue Kerr) in K. Buckley and E.L. Wheelwright (eds.), Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism, Vol. IV, Sydney, 148-171, 1980

'A Kaleckian Analysis of the Australian Economic Crisis' (with B. McFarlane), in P. Boreham and G. Dow (eds.), Work and Inequality, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1980

Other Papers and Presentations

‘Markets as Networks: economics of the rice trade in a Red River delta village of Vietnam’, 7th EUROSEAS (European Southeast Asian Studies Association) Conference, Naples, 12-14 September 2007

A Shortage of Sheilas: why so few women economists at Macquarie (with Andrea Chareunsy), Macquarie Economics Research Papers, No. 1/2006, February 2006

Keynote address:  ‘Doi Moi in Review: state, society and politics’, 1st High-level Roundtable on 20 years of Doi Moi, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, January 2005

Transformation of the planning system in Vietnam, Macquarie Economics Research Papers, Economics Department, Macquarie University, no. 8, 25 pp., 1999

'A Methodology for Analysing the Process of Economic Reform in Vietnam: the case of Domestic Trade', (with Adam Fforde) Australian Vietnam Research Project Working Papers no. 2, March, 29 pp., 1996

'Political Economy of Primary Health Care in Vietnam' in Paul Cohen and John Purcal (eds) Health and Development in Southeast Asia, Australian Development Studies Network, pp. 104-119, 1996

'Some Perspectives on the Transition to a Market Economy in Vietnam', Keynote address in A. Barthels (ed.) Intercultural Interaction and Development: Converging Perspectives, UTS, Sydney pp. 32-37, 1996

'Democracy and Power in a Transitional One-Party Culture' (with Irene Norlund), NASEAS Annual Conference Proceedings, Nordic Association for Southeast Asian Studies, Uppsala, 1995 .

'Foreword' in C. Gates, I. Norlund and Vu Cao Dam (eds) Vietnam in a Changing World, Curzon Press, London, pp. vii-ix, 1995

'Economy and Environment' in Benedict J.T. Kerkvliet (ed.), Dilemmas of Development: Vietnam Update 1994, Political and Social Change Monograph no. 22, Australian National University, Canberra, pp. 69-88, 1995

'Interpretation of the Vietnamese Economic Reforms 1979-85', Australian Vietnam Research Project Working Papers no. 1, January, pp. 1-16, 1995

'Prospects for Growth in the Vietnamese Economy' in R. Braddock (ed.), Vietnam: Which Way Now?, Macquarie University Asia-Pacific Research Institute, Sydney, pp. 17-24, 1993

1993 'Some Key Issues in the Reform of the North Vietnamese Industrial Sector', Political and Social Change Working Paper, no. 9, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. 16 pp.

'Political Economy of Reform in Vietnam' in Hans Hendrischke (ed.), Market Reform in the Changing Socialist World, Centre for Chinese Political Economy, Macquarie University, Sydney, pp. 101-121, 1992

Industrial Relations in ASEAN and other Capitalist Countries (with Diana Kelly), in Mark Bray (ed.), Teaching Comparative Industrial Relations, ACIRRT, Monograph No. 2, University of Sydney, pp. 86-100, 1991

War and Revolution in Southern Vietnam, Teaching History, Vol. 22, No. 4, January, pp. 3-9, 1989

Revolution in the Countryside: Report of a Visit to Vietnam in October-November 1985, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 391-434, 1986

Consultancy Reports

Synthesis report (with R. Barker) Rapid growth of selected Asian economies: Lessons and implications for agriculture and food security, FAO, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Policy Assistance Series 1/3, Bangkok, 2006

Policy Reform and the Transformation of Vietnamese Agriculture (with Dang Kim Son, Nguyen Ngoc Que, Pham Quang Dieu, Truong Thi Thu Trang), in Rapid growth of selected Asian economies: Lessons and implications for agriculture and food security: Republic of Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Policy Assistance Series 1/3, Bangkok, pp. III.1-49, 2006

Terminal Evaluation Report, 'Partnership for Gender Equity', UNDP Cambodia and Royal Government of Cambodia, Ministry of Women's and Veterans' Affairs, Phnom Penh, 2004.

Macroeconomics of Poverty Reduction in Cambodia, (with Nguon Sokha, Rathin Roy, Sau Sisovanna and Ceema Namazie) UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Program, New York 2004, 208 pp. 

Terminal Evaluation Report, 'Strengthening capacity for implementation of the National Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women 1996-2000',VIE/96/011, UNDP, Hanoi, February 2000

Vietnam's Public Investment Program 1996-2000: a Gender Analysis, Report prepared for the Ministry of Planning and Investment under the UNDP Technical Assistance Project VIE/94/015, Hanoi, July-August, 27 pp., 1996

The Impact of Macroeconomic Reform on Women in Vietnam, UNIFEM, Hanoi, December, 51 pp., 1994

Employment and Labour Productivity in the Australian Beef Cattle, Sheep and Dairy Industries, United Nations Livestock Centre for Africa, Addis Ababa, 1977