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Profile
Dr Martin Gainsborough is a specialist on South East Asia’s politics and political economy with a focus on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Before taking up his current post in Bristol, he was Lecturer in South East Asian politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies and holder of a British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick. Dr Gainsborough is currently engaged in a research project looking at the changing nature of the state in provincial Vietnam in an era of globalisation and reform. The project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Dr Gainsborough is a Vietnamese speaker and has nearly fifteen years research experience in Vietnam. From 1996-99, he lived in Ho Chi Minh City where he conducted research for his doctoral thesis. Dr Gainsborough is a former Asia-Pacific editor of the business consultancy company, Oxford Analytica, and continues to work as a consultant for a wide range of government, multilateral and private sector clients.
Selected Publications
Gainsborough, M (2003) Vietnam’s Changing Political Economy: The
Case of Ho Chi Minh City. RoutledgeCurzon:
London and New York
Gainsborough, M (2003) Enterprise and Welfare Reform in Asia. Co-edited
with Peter Ferdinand. Frank Cass
Gainsborough, M (2003) Slow, Quick Quick: Assessing Equitisation and Enterprise
Performance Prospects in Vietnam. Journal
of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 19, no. 1, pp.
49-63.
Gainsborough, M (2003) Corruption and the Politics of Decentralisation
in Vietnam. Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 33, no.1, pp. 69-84.
Gainsborough, M (2002) Beneath the Veneer of Reform: The Politics of Economic
Liberalisation in Vietnam. Communist
and Post-Communist Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, , pp. 353-368.
Gainsborough, M (2002) Political Change in Vietnam: In Search of the Middle
Class Challenge to the State. Asian
Survey, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 694-707
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