Endnotes

¹ For the explanation of the variations in alternative policy advisory organizations across countries, see R. Kent Weaver and Paul B. Stares, "Guidance for Governance: An Overview," in R. Kent Weaver and Paul B. Stares, eds., Guidance for Governance: Comparing Alternative Sources of Public Policy Advice, Japan Center for International Exchange, 2001.

² The Ministry and Planning and Investment (MPI), Vietnam's planning ministry, has two think tanks: the Development Strategy Institute (DSI) and the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM). DSI was established on the foundation of the two departments of the State Planning Committee (the predecessor of MPI): Department for Long-Term National Economic Planning and Department for Economic Zoning and Planning. DSI mainly focuses on socio-economic development strategy and master plans for the whole country and specific territorial areas. The major responsibilities of CIEM include economic laws and regulations, planning and management mechanisms, business environment, and economic reform. Given its mandates, CIEM has broad working relations with the Communist Party and the National Assembly as well as the business circle.

³ Of course, training on required skills or changes in laws and regulations relevant for a specific ministry/agency or department may continue to be provided internally. The consolidated Economics Training Institute may be placed under the Prime Minister's Office or Ministry of Home Affairs like NAPA. The Institute may give pre-civil service training to those who are to start working for an economic ministry or agency. Also, officials from economic ministries and agencies coming to NAPA for training may be obliged to go through the training at the Institute as well.

⁴ The nine participating institutes include: Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM, Ministry of Planning and Investment), Health Strategy and Policy Institute (HSPI, Ministry of Health), National Institute of Posts and Telematics Strategy (NIPTS, Ministry of Posts and Telematics), National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategy Studies (NISTPASS, Ministry and Science and Technology), Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agricultural and Rural Development (IPSARD, Ministry and Agriculture and Rural Development), Development Strategy Institute (DSI, Ministry of Planning and Investment), Institute of Labor Science and Social Affaires (ILSSA, Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs), Industrial Policy and Strategy Institute (IPSI, Ministry of Industry), and Institute for State Organizational Sciences (ISOS, Ministry of Home Affairs).

⁵ Hsuan Owyang, http://www.istana.gov.sg/sp-030719.html

⁶ NIRA's Directory of Think Tanks: http://www.nira.go.jp/*

⁷ TDRI: http://www.info.tdri.or.th/*

⁸ KDI: http://www.kdi.re.kr/kdi_eng/main.jsp*

⁹ http://www.atlasusa.org/highlight_archive/2004/fall2004/fall%202004.1.html*

¹⁰ TEI: http://www.tei.or.th/*

¹¹ MIER: http://www.mier.org.my/*

¹² ISEAS: 13 JIIA: http://www.jiia.or.jp/*

¹⁴ SIIA: http://www.siiaonline.org/*

¹⁵ CSIS: http://www.csis.or.id/*

16 Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia: http://www.lipi.go.id/*

¹⁷ PIDS: http://www.pids.gov.ph/*

¹⁸ Taiwan Institute of Economic Research: http://www.tier.org.tw/english.htm

¹⁹ ISIS: http://www.isis.org.my/*

²⁰ IKIM: http://www.ikim.gov.my/*

²¹ Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium (APPC): http://www.asianphilanthropy.org/index.html

²² APSEG: http://apseg.anu.edu.au/default.php *

²³ http://www.vietnamtrade.org/*

²⁴ CICP: http://www.cicp.org.kh/default.htm

²⁵ JCIE Global ThinkNet: http://www.jcie.or.jp/thinknet/*

²⁶ Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies: http://www.tcf.or.jp/events/20000127-28.html

²⁷ GDN: www.gdnet.org*

²⁸ Interview with the Director of the Industry Strategy Institute, Ministry of Industry, VnExpress, June 1, 2005.

²⁹ Note of Professor Hoang Ba Chu, Rector of Hanoi University of Technology, at the National Conference on Science Research, March 10, 2005 (VNExpress, March 11, 2005).

³⁰http://vietnamnet.vn/giaoduc/2005/07/470259/ - The need to have new thinking on using human resources.

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1. Rathindranath Pal
   (posted 23 April 2008 / 08:10:32 PM)
   
   It’s a good initiative and relevance to Viet Nam at this moment as its economy is quickly growing like China and India. Without strengthening the capacity of public policy and research it is difficult for a country to be on right track of development.