RE: VN Economic Journal

["Nguyen.Hoang" <Hoang_Nguyen@ftb.ca.gov>]

As an economist, I found the ideas of Ba'c Toan, Lam, and Cong
interesting and worth pursuing.
Let me put the list of ideas presented so far:
	1.  Publishing a VN economic journal
	2.  Translating foreign economic textbook into VN
	3.  Bring teaching aids such as software,  lecture notes, etc. to VN
	4.  Get international or VN government's funding to carry out the above
projects

Please let me add the following projects to the list to be considered:
	5.  Collect well-accepted economic text books to send to VN
universities
	6.  Encourage economic education by collecting funds and by
establishing scholarships for economic students in VN,
	7.  Form a VN economic group consisting of economists in VN and abroad
to exchange economic information, ideas, projects, etc. (I think there
is one such electronic forum already in existence?).
	8.  Volunteer to go back to VN to teach economics on a short term
basis.

With constraining resources, we should think about the cost/benefit of
the above projects to establish a priority list before venturing any
further.
Nguyen D. Hoang
PS.  Last year, NSF had a program to teach market economics courses in
VN.  I saw the funding announcement but did not follow up.  Does anyone
have information on the progress of this NSF program?
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> > On Wed, 14 May 1997, Nguyen Toan Quoc wrote:
> > 
> > > As an Economic Student, I am dreaming of seeing a Journal of Economic
> > > Development, specifically focusing on issuess in Vietnam like the
> > > "American Economic Review" or some Australian economic journals here.
> > > I wish we can have such journals. Is there anybody share the same ideas?
> > > What if we try to establish such thing in future. ?
> > >       Cheers,
> > >       Toan Nguyen.
> > >
> > 
> > Co' tui dda^y ba'c Toan Nguyen. Nhu+ng ma` ba#c chi? uo+'c hay co`n ddi.nh
> > la`m gi` the^m nu+~a?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > La^m
> To be honest, I really want that we can establish one. However, lu+.c
> ba^'t to`ng ta^m. Moreover, the cost of establishing such journal of
> high quality will be very high. I don't know much anybody in Economics
> in Vietnam. 
> In my opinion, the journal must be of ACADEMIC interest (i.e.
> professionally designed, edited). So far, I haven't seen any such
> journal of high quality in economic research in Vietnam. the journal
> must be able to provide a place where researchers can publish their
> researchs, especially for Vietnamese researchers (as it is not easy to
> publish papers overseas). At the same time, it will help encourage our
> researchers and our students.
> What do you think?.
> 
> BTW, there are so many great textbooks in Economics that haven't been
> translated in Vietnam. Partly because of financial reasons. For
> example,  as I known in 1996, the book "Development Economics" of
> Michael Todaro has not been translated into Vietnamese. Econometric
> knowledge and software relating to experimental tests like game theory
> are still not very popular for students. 
> I am willing to participate in translating any economic textbooks into
> Vietnamese. We can even make it more applicable in the Vietnamse
> context. Anybody ?
> 	T.Nguyen

[Economics-Opinion]
> 
Hi anh Toan, yes I am in. I am willing to participate in any activities 
that can help to bring some economics knowledge that we learn here to
our 
Vietnamese student. Especially, I am interesting in translating or at 
least prepare a lecture note for an undergaduate course in econometrics.
I also have a few good statistical/econometric softwares that can be
good 
instructional means to teach econometrics in Vietnam. So far, as I know,
not many schools teach econometrics in Vietnam. It is a good idea to 
develop a different conception about econometrics for our student back 
home because it is an intergrated part of market economics. 
Regarding the journal, I think we can start it small, then finance 
support will come if we have a good working objectives. We can ask for 
funding from international organizations or even from our own 
governement. The most important thing is to find people who are willing 
to participate.
Cheers
Cong Tru Le
>