Tran Huu Dung
Department of Economics
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio 45435
U.S.A.

This site is designed to serve
(1) students in my courses,
(2) guests who are interested in the East Asian economies,
especially Vietnam.

I hope you will find the information useful.
Happy surfing!
And thanks for dropping by.

  COURSE READINGS

USEFUL LINKS FOR COURSE WORKS

• EconomicSearch.com - claimed to be "the one-stop shopping site designed specifically for economists and students of Economics"
• Statistical Abstract of the United States - A comprehensive source of information about the U.S.
• FEDERAL RESERVE EDUCATION WEBSITE - How the central bank affects the economy through its conduct of monetary policy.
• Economics Policy Debates on Current Issues
• EconNews Online:  Summaries of the latest economics news stories
• Economics in the News (Irwin-McGrawHill site)
• Hal Varian's "interesting" web page contains many links to other economic resources on the web.
• All the classic books (Marx, Marshall, Keynes, etc...) can be found in this Archive
• Price Theory: An Intermediate Text by David Friedman
• Guides to information resources on economics (Wright State University libraries)
• HUMONGOUS LINKS (to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, think tanks, international organizations ...)
• MY FAVORITE SEARCH ENGINES:
• Multi-engine Search (Dogpile)
• Google
• Altavista

• RECENT NEWS CLIPPINGS
• Current news in/about Vietnam from the Washington Post and the Associated Press, from Reuters (preset search engines using these sites)
• Yahoo! Full Coverage: Vietnam News
• Vietnam Online --From Hanoi, a general web site about all aspects of Vietnam: Business, Travel and Culture...
• The main gateway to Internet resources offered from Vietnam
• Destination Vietnam: Art, Culture, History and Travel
• Vietnam: A Country Study (a very good overview provided by the U.S. Library of Congress--current data only as of 1987 though)
• Guide to tourists

• Nhan Dan [People's Daily]
• Vietnam News Agency
• Vietnam Economic Times
• Vietnam Investment Review
• US-Vietnam Business Development --Noteworthy
• Indochina Chronology [Published by Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University]
• For business information, go to Vietnam - Business Directory, or to Vietnam Trade Network
• The World Bank in Vietnam (special website of the World Bank exclusively for Vietnam)
• Facts about Vietnam according to the CIA World Fact Book 2000
• VIETNAM PROJECT AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY [Publisher of Indochina Chronology]

• American Embassy in Hanoi
• Vietnam Embassy in Washington, D.C.
• The World Bank and Vietnam
• Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) | Publications
• Viet Connect --forum for developmental issues in Vietnam. Includes archives and database of professionals.
• Viet Touch --art, architecture, literature, music, and philatelist history of Vietnam.
• Community Aid Abroad: Vietnam (A treasure trove of links--highly recommended)
• Swedish Working Papers in Economics on Vietnam (from Stockholm School of Economics) - Excellent paper series for serious researchers on the Vietnam economy

• BBC
• RFI  (Radio France Internationale)
• VOV (Voice of Vietnam) | Music |

• SUMMER 1999 LIEGE SEMINAR ON VIETNAM (in Vietnamese)
• SUMMER 2000 NEW YORK SEMINAR ON VIETNAM (in Vietnamese)
• SUMMER 2001 AIX-EN-PROVENCE SEMINAR ON VIETNAM (in Vietnamese)

• RECENT NEWS CLIPPINGS (see also my Readings in International Economics)
• East Asia and the Pacific from the World Bank website
• IMF site map
• Foreign Central Banks
• To read almost everything on the Asian economic crisis, go to this home page of Professor Nouriel Roubini
• The Financial Times Special Report: Asia in Crisis
• A site much like ours is Asia Research Center at Murdoch University (Australia)

• Far Eastern Economic Review (Must read)
• Asiaweek (Newly redesigned, much improved from previous years)
• South China Morning Post
• Asian Business e-magazine
• Special sections (some require paid subscriptions) on Asia in New York Times | Wall Street Journal | Financial Times |  TIME | CNN |

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