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Trading Together

Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in the Post-Covid Era

By: Rabah Arezki,Blanca Moreno-Dodson,Rachel Yuting Fan,Romeo Gansey,Ha Nguyen,Minh Cong Nguyen,Lili Mottaghi,Constantin Tsakas,Christina Wood,Nelly El-Mallakh

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Trading Together

Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in the Post-Covid Era

By: Rabah Arezki,Blanca Moreno-Dodson,Rachel Yuting Fan,Romeo Gansey,Ha Nguyen,Minh Cong Nguyen,Lili Mottaghi,Constantin Tsakas,Christina Wood,Nelly El-Mallakh

Part I of this report discusses the short- and medium-term growth prospects for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The region is expected to grow at a subdued rate of 0.6 percent in 2019, rising to 2.6 percent in 2020 and 2.9 percent in 2021. The growth forecast for 2019 is revised down by 0.8 percentage points from the April 2019 projection. MENA’s economic outlook is subject to substantial downside risks—most notably, intensified global economic headwinds and rising geopolitical tensions. Part II argues that promoting fair competition is key for MENA countries to complete the transition from an administered to a market economy. Part II first examines current competition policies in MENA countries and to promote fair competition calls for strengthening competition law and enforcement agencies. It also calls for corporatizing state-owned enterprises, promoting the private sector and creating a level-playing field between them. Any moves to reform MENA economies would be aided by professional management of public assets, which could tap into a new source of national wealth.

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World Bank Publications

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1464816395

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9781464816390

The Dark Journey

Inside the Reeducation Camps of Viet Cong

By: Hoa Minh Truong

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The Dark Journey

Inside the Reeducation Camps of Viet Cong

By: Hoa Minh Truong

Two days after Saigon fell to the communists, Hoa Minh Truong walked along the path leading to the Tan Xuyen village council. He had been there many times during his army service but this time he was filled with fear. The extra-tight security included a young Viet Cong trooper who clutched a Russian-made AK-47 automatic rifle in his small hands. The gun was just one of many multi-death tools supplied in the name of revolution by the major communist powers to Vietnam's communists. The trooper could not have been more than fifteen years old. In the yard next to the building Hoa noticed a huge heap of uniforms, helmets, boots, belts and ammunition. All of these items had been dumped there when the South Vietnam government surrendered and ordered its forces to disarm. Hoa was on the losing side of the war for reasons that, to him, remained unclear and unacceptable. Now, he and many thousands of others were being forced into so-called re-education camps. Held there without trial, these prisoners faced terrible conditions and cruel punishments. Many did not survive, but Hoa did. In this remarkable book, he offers his story to the world. Author Hoa Minh Truong is a well-published author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry in the Vietnamese language. He now lives in Perth, Australia with his wife and daughter.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1609111613

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9781609111618

Good Evening, Vietnam

The Aftermath of an Unknown Journey

By: Hoa Minh Truong

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Good Evening, Vietnam

The Aftermath of an Unknown Journey

By: Hoa Minh Truong

The dramatic novel Good Evening, Vietnam is a love story interrupted by war.During his tour of duty in Vietnam, a young U.S. chopper co-pilot falls in love with a Vietnamese girl. After his chopper is shot down, he is taken prisoner by the Vietcong. Under a POW exchange in 1973, he returns to America, leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend.After the Vietcong take over Saigon, they imprison hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese who worked with the Americans, force others into the jungles, and denounce the children of U.S. soldiers. Most of these abandoned children were left homeless, some became gangsters, and others joined bandit gangs.Many years later, when the American pilot’s mental health finally recovers from his ordeals, he travels back to Vietnam for closure. There he is robbed by a gang leader, who later looks at the wallet of the man he robbed, and finds a surprising photo.Good Evening, Vietnam is the stunning story of a reunion that was too long in coming.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1618977881

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9781618977885

Chào Bạn!

An Introduction to Vietnamese

By: Tri C. Tran,Minh-Tam Tran

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Chào Bạn!

An Introduction to Vietnamese

By: Tri C. Tran,Minh-Tam Tran

Chào Ban! is an interactive language program of introductory Vietnamese intended for use by non-native students, as well as students of Vietnamese heritage without a solid knowledge of the language. The entire program uses the communicative approach, which focuses on teaching the language for the ultimate purpose of using it in everyday settings. Chào Ban! consists of a textbook and workbook manual that adhere to the following practical objectives: to make the whole program straightforward in presentation, user-friendly, practical, interesting to students, and most importantly culture-based.

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University Press of America

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0761837361

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9780761837367

Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam

Quy?n V?n Minh and Jazz in Hà N?i

By: Stan BH Tan-Tangbau,Quy?n V?n Minh

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Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam

Quy?n V?n Minh and Jazz in Hà N?i

By: Stan BH Tan-Tangbau,Quy?n V?n Minh

Shortlisted for the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2022 Quyền Văn Minh (b. 1954) is not only a jazz saxophonist and lecturer at the prestigious Vietnam National Academy of Music, but he is also one of the most preeminent jazz musicians in Vietnam. Considered a pioneer in the country, Minh is often publicly recognized as the “godfather of Vietnamese jazz.” Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam tells the story of the music as it intertwined with Minh’s own narrative. Stan BH Tan-Tangbau details Minh’s life story, telling how Minh pioneered jazz as an original genre even while navigating the trials and tribulations of a fervent socialist revolution, of the ideological battle that was the Cold War, of Vietnam’s war against the United States, and of the political changes during the Đổi Mới period between the mid-1980s and the 1990s. Minh worked tirelessly and delivered two breakthrough solo recitals in 1988 and 1989, marking the first time jazz was performed in the public sphere in the socialist state. To gain jazz acceptance as a mainstream musical art form, Minh founded Minh Jazz Club. With the release of his debut album of original compositions in 2000, Minh shaped the nascent genre of Vietnamese jazz. Minh’s endeavors kickstarted the momentum, from his performing jazz in public, teaching jazz both formally and informally, and contributing to the shaping of an original Vietnamese voice to stand out among the many styles in the jazz world. Most importantly, Minh generated a public space for musicians to play and for the Vietnamese to listen. His work eventually helped to gain jazz the credibility necessary at the national conservatoire to offer instruction in a professional music education program.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496836375

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9781496836373

We fight for our long-lasting Vietnam

By: Luong Minh Cu

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We fight for our long-lasting Vietnam

By: Luong Minh Cu

The poetry collection “We fight for our long-lasting Viet Nam” is selected by Associate Prof. Dr. Luong Minh Cu. The poetry collection’s name has hinted at a generation of soldiers battling and writing poems. When reading the collection, we will get to know talented generals like Senior Lieutenant General Tran Van Tra, and Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Cam, who used to compose poems while directly commanding the battlefield. War is a harsh challenge in life, but war also toughened a generation of soldiers to become generals and poets. Each artist is a secretary of an era, then the poets wearing military uniforms are the secretaries of blood and flower, they combine the souls of their generations in the poems, remembering a time with everyone sacrificed for the country and two words: Viet Nam. Their poems are full of feelings and the soul’s delicacy in the beauty of the country and its people.

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Ukiyoto Publishing

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9390510724

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9789390510726

Vietnam's Socialist Servants

Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity

By: Minh T. N. Nguyen

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Vietnam's Socialist Servants

Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity

By: Minh T. N. Nguyen

Since Vietnam introduced economic reforms in the mid-1980s, domestic service has become an established sector of the labour market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban life in the rapidly changing country. This book analyzes the ways in which the practices and discourses of domestic service serve to forge and contest emerging class identities in post-reform Vietnam. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative data, including ethnographies, interviews, and narratives, it shows that such practices and discourses are rooted in cultural notions of gender and rural-urban difference and enduring socialist structures of feeling, which, in turn, clash with the realities of growing differentiation. Domestic workers’ experiences reveal negotiations with class boundaries actively set by the urban middle class, who seek distinction through emerging notions and practices of domesticity. These boundaries are nevertheless riddled with gender and class anxiety on the side of the latter, partly because of the very struggles and contestations of the domestic workers. More broadly, Minh T. N. Nguyen links the often invisible intimate dynamics of class formation in the domestic sphere with wider political economic processes in a post-socialist country embarking on marketization while retaining the political control of a party-state. As a pioneering ethnographic study of domestic service in Vietnam today, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian culture & society, social anthropology, gender studies, human geography and development studies.

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Routledge

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1317690613

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9781317690610

Environmental Engineering Dictionary of Technical Terms and Phrases

English to Vietnamese and Vietnamese to English

By: Francis J. Hopcroft,Minh N. Nguyen

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Environmental Engineering Dictionary of Technical Terms and Phrases

English to Vietnamese and Vietnamese to English

By: Francis J. Hopcroft,Minh N. Nguyen

This reference manual provides a list of approximately 300 technical terms and phrases common to environmental engineering which non-English speakers often find difficult to understand in English. The manual provides the terms and phrases in alphabetical order, followed by a concise English definition, then a translation of the term in Vietnamese and, finally, an interpretation or translation of the term or phrase in Vietnamese. Following the Vietnamese translations section, the columns are reversed and reordered alphabetically in Vietnamese with the English term and translation following the Vietnamese term or phrase. The objective is to provide a technical term reference manual for non-English speaking students and engineers who are familiar with Vietnamese, but uncomfortable with English, and to provide a similar reference for English speaking students and engineers working in an area of the world where the Vietnamese language predominates.

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Momentum Press

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1945612517

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9781945612510

MENA ECONOMIC UPDATE APRIL 2021

How Institutions Shape the Tradeoff Between Short-Term Needs and Long-Term Costs of Public Debt in Middle East and North Africa

By: Roberta Gatti,Daniel Lederman,Sultan Abdulaziz Alturki,Rachel Yuting Fan,Asif Islam,Claudio Jeremias Rojas,Ha Minh Nguyen

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MENA ECONOMIC UPDATE APRIL 2021

How Institutions Shape the Tradeoff Between Short-Term Needs and Long-Term Costs of Public Debt in Middle East and North Africa

By: Roberta Gatti,Daniel Lederman,Sultan Abdulaziz Alturki,Rachel Yuting Fan,Asif Islam,Claudio Jeremias Rojas,Ha Minh Nguyen

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1464816999

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Overconfident

How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID

By: Roberta Gatti,Daniel Lederman,Rachel Yuting Fan,Arian Hatefi,Ha Minh Nguyen,Anja Sautmann,Joseph Martin Sax,Christina Wood,Sultan Abdulaziz Alturki,Claudio Jeremias Rojas

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Overconfident

How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID

By: Roberta Gatti,Daniel Lederman,Rachel Yuting Fan,Arian Hatefi,Ha Minh Nguyen,Anja Sautmann,Joseph Martin Sax,Christina Wood,Sultan Abdulaziz Alturki,Claudio Jeremias Rojas

Overconfident: How Economic and Health Fault Lines Left the Middle East and North Africa Ill-Prepared to Face COVID This report examines the region’s economic prospects in 2021, forecasting that the recovery will be both tenuous and uneven as per capita GDP level stays below pre-pandemic levels. COVID-19 was a stress-test for the region’s public health systems, which were already overwhelmed even before the pandemic. Indeed, a decade of lackluster economic reforms left a legacy of large public sectors and high public debt that effectively crowded out investments in social services such as public health. This edition points out that the region’s health systems were not only ill-prepared for the pandemic, but suffered from over-confidence, as authorities painted an overly optimistic picture in self-assessments of health system preparedness. Going forward, governments must improve data transparency for public health and undertake reforms to remedy historical underinvestment in public health systems.

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1464817987

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9781464817984

Vietnam: A Natural History

By: Eleanor Jane Sterling,Martha Maud Hurley,Le Duc Minh

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Vietnam: A Natural History

By: Eleanor Jane Sterling,Martha Maud Hurley,Le Duc Minh

A country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world’s biological diversity, including rare and unique organisms and an unusual mixture of tropical and temperate species. This book is the first comprehensive account of Vietnam’s natural history in English. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and thirty-five original watercolor illustrations, the book offers a complete tour of the country’s plants and animals along with a full discussion of the factors shaping their evolution and distribution. Separate chapters focus on northern, central, and southern Vietnam, regions that encompass tropics, subtropics, mountains, lowlands, wetland and river regions, delta and coastal areas, and offshore islands. The authors provide detailed descriptions of key natural areas to visit, where a traveler might explore limestone caves or glimpse some of the country’s twenty-seven monkey and ape species and more than 850 bird species. The book also explores the long history of humans in the country, including the impact of the Vietnam-American War on plants and animals, and describes current efforts to conserve Vietnam’s complex, fragile, and widely threatened biodiversity.

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Yale University Press

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0300128215

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9780300128215

Trading Together

Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in the Post-Covid Era

By: Rabah Arezki,Blanca Moreno-Dodson,Rachel Yuting Fan,Romeo Gansey,Ha Nguyen,Minh Cong Nguyen,Lili Mottaghi,Constantin Tsakas,Christina Wood,Nelly El-Mallakh

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Trading Together

Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in the Post-Covid Era

By: Rabah Arezki,Blanca Moreno-Dodson,Rachel Yuting Fan,Romeo Gansey,Ha Nguyen,Minh Cong Nguyen,Lili Mottaghi,Constantin Tsakas,Christina Wood,Nelly El-Mallakh

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1464816395

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The Dark Journey

Inside the Reeducation Camps of Viet Cong

By: Hoa Minh Truong

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Inside the Reeducation Camps of Viet Cong

By: Hoa Minh Truong

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Collective Leadership and Factionalism

An Essay on Ho Chi Minh's Legacy

By: Quang Trung Thai

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Collective Leadership and Factionalism

An Essay on Ho Chi Minh's Legacy

By: Quang Trung Thai

This essay goes beyong the legend of Ho Chi Minh and his disciples. Behind the facade of unity, the Vietnamese communist leadership has for years been torn by a prolonged crisis, sustained by two major ideological factions and later amplified by the development of the Sino-Soviet rift. Ho Chi Minh was far from being a dictator the calibre of Tito, for example. Rather, his style of collective leadership has contributed to the institutionalization of factionalism in Hanoi. His policy of equidistance between Moscow and Beijing became more or less a necessity for the leadership's unity. This book addresses itself to the question: Did Ho Chi Minh leave behind a unified party? The book provides an understanding of one of the most enigmatic - and the most long-lasting - leaderships in the communist annals, and examines the current state of the Hanoi regime.

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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9971988011

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Trading Together

Trading Together

The Dark Journey

The Dark Journey

Good Evening, Vietnam

Good Evening, Vietnam

Chào Bạn!

Chào Bạn!

Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam

Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam

We fight for our long-lasting Vietnam

We fight for our long-lasting Vietnam

Vietnam's Socialist Servants

Vietnam's Socialist Servants

Environmental Engineering Dictionary of Technical Terms and Phrases

Environmental Engineering Dictionary of Technical Terms and Phrases

MENA ECONOMIC UPDATE APRIL 2021

MENA ECONOMIC UPDATE APRIL 2021

Overconfident

Overconfident

Vietnam: A Natural History

Vietnam: A Natural History

Trading Together

Trading Together

The Dark Journey

The Dark Journey

Collective Leadership and Factionalism

Collective Leadership and Factionalism

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