Regional Program: Southeast Asia

Research Program Leader: Richard Blue, Mekong Law Center

Focus: Vietnam

Southeast Asia Program background:

BASIS Southeast Asia concentrated its efforts on establishing a program in Vietnam. Vietnam faces important issues of factor market integration with neighboring countries (similar to what made Cambodia attractive), is a major transitional economy with a growing need to modernize its agricultural sector, and has significant crossborder movement of people and capital with southern China and Cambodia.

A reconnaissance mission to Cambodia in January 1997 secured a commitment of roughly $225,000 per year for 5-6 years and collaboration with The Asia Foundation (TAF/Cambodia) and Lidee Khmer, a Cambodian research organization. A planning mission was aborted in Bangkok on 5 July 1997 after learning of the coup d'etat. In early August, USAID announced its decision to withdraw assistance to the Cambodian government. The BASIS ME was subsequently informed by the USAID mission of its decision to terminate technical and financial support for BASIS. On 14 August 1997, the BASIS ME formally closed the Cambodia project.

Publications:

Cambodia Reconnaissance Mission Report, February 1997.

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