VECA is a biannual review (in print) of the Vietnamese economy designed to present an analysis of underlying trends in the context of commentary on the current situation. VECA “reflects the author’s long experience in analysing and interpreting the Vietnamese economy, and his understanding of the problems investors and donors may encounter”. Each 100 page issue of VECA has four sections: Recent Events and Political Trends; Economic Analysis; Outlook and Forecasts; Economic Legislation. Tables and graphs present a wealth of social and economic data and statistics from national and international sources.
There is an additional subscription to a database service. Databases are:
(a) VIETNEWS: This database consists of a series of references to articles in the Vietnamese language press since 1991. Covers articles of social and economic interest. Each entry notes: title of each article; author; publication; businesses noted in the article, and a brief summary of contents. The database contained around 30,000 entries in February 1997.
(b) VIETUNITS: This database consists of a list of various places, businesses and other ‘units’, tracking entries referring to them in various publications. As of February 1997 the database contained entries covering around 2,800 units.
(c) VIETLEG: This database consists of the references to the contents of the Official Gazette the (‘Cong Bao’) since the beginning of 1985. All decrees and other decisions published in the Gazette have an entry giving the title, the originating organisation, the date, the number and the sector involved. As of February 1997 the database contained around 2,500 entries.
(d) VIETBIO: consists of a series of entries referring to Vietnamese individuals in government, business, academia and other areas.
(e) VIETSOURCES: This database has two types of entries – first, the holdings of the ADUKI Library in Canberra; second, entries referring to other publications and materials on Vietnam that we have noted. As of February 1997 the database contained around 6,800 items.