Melanie Beresford is a leading scholar on the political economy of Vietnam, whose area of expertise also extends to gender and development, agrarian change and rural development, and network analysis.
Melanie Beresford is a leading scholar on the political economy of Vietnam, whose area of expertise also extends to gender and development, agrarian change and rural development, and network analysis.
Professor Beresford has conducted consultancies in Vietnam for various UN agencies, the Canadian International Develompent Agency (CIDA), Oxfam Quebec, and numerous Vietnamese Ministries and committees. She has held visiting fellowships at numerous locations worldwide, including at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen; Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU; Institute of World Economy, Hanoi; and the Swedish Centre for Working Life, Stockholm.
Books by this author
Reaching for the Dream
Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam
Focuses on the differentiated ways in which the double transition in Vietnam - from central planning and from under-development - affects various sectors of the population.