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BROWN-BAG PRESENTATION

East-West Center Education Program Presents

The Promising Role of the State-Business Nexus in

the Process of Liberalizing Vietnams Energy Sector:An Analysis of Institutional Characteristics and Arrangements

Lan Janet KrauseM.A. Candidate, University of Trier, Germany

Affiliate Scholar, East-West Center

Thursday, April 19, 2012

12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.

John A. Burns Hall, Room 2118 (2nd

floor), East-West Center

Twenty-six years after beginning its economic renovation Doi Moi the socialist countryVietnam has moved from one of the poorest nations in Asia to a dynamic economic

performer. However, after more than two decades of sustained growth, the Southeast-Asian

rising star is now facing some serious economic obstacles. Energy shortages have become a

chronic problem due to a 7% to 8% annual growth in GDP from 2006 to 2010 which was

accompanied by an increase in power demand of 16% per annum. Rapid urbanization hasfurther exacerbated this predicament. The nations electric power system is unable to keep

pace with the huge demand.Vietnam needs a new policy of public infrastructure to secure

sustainable economic development and to gain long-term competitive advantages. Faced with

the urgent need for energy development, the Vietnam Government has enacted several

preferential policy reforms to facilitate financing for private entities in an effort to increase

the States energy supply. Vietnams energy sector is now undergoing a gradualtransformation in which the cooperation and coordination of state and business entities has

become a driving force in the liberalization process. As a result, business actors have become

increasingly involved in the transition process as important strategic partners and

collaborators. The presentation will focus on this synergy between the state and private sector

and examine its institutional characteristics and arrangements.

Ms. Lan Janet Krause studies Political Science, Business Administration and Public Law at

the University of Trier, Germany. Her research interest is Southeast Asia, in particular

Vietnam. As an Affiliate Scholar at the East-West Center, Ms. Krause spent three months at

the Center working on her Masters thesis. She has been a scholar at the Friedrich EbertFoundation since 2008. From 2009 to 2010 she studied at Sciences Po Bordeaux, France. She

has also interned at both the French Chamber of Commerce and the German Political

Foundation FES in Vietnam. In addition to her studies, Ms. Krause works as a German-

Vietnamese interpreter. For further information, please contact: janetkrause@chefmail.de

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