Vietnam Rising : Culture and Change in Asia's Tiger Cub, Paperback by Ratliff, William, ISBN 1598130269, ISBN-13 9781598130263, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

Ratliff, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, is also curator of the Americas Collection at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He begins his account of the Southeast Asian country by reviewing the historical and cultural factors that have contributed significantly to the situation there as of 2008, including the remarkable economic improvements. Then he looks at recent pro-market, political and economic reforms, the numerous new forms of private entrepreneurship, special challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises, and confronting the world in the form of the US and the World Trade Organization. Distributed in the US by Independent Publishers Group. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()