ABSTRACT
Policy implementation at the micro level—the amalgamation of cooperatives and the creation of new managerial structures—generated a need for knowledge of experience in other cooperatives. This in turn produced a variety of studies and reports which form the basis for the materials used here. They were written for domestic consumption, and the extent of the difficulties revealed allows more confidence to be placed in them than in the usual reports from foreign visitors to “Potemkin” cooperatives. But their focus was usually the problems encountered in the so-called advanced (ten ten*) cooperatives, and although in the present state of research they are of great value, their scope is inevitably limited. The two sources of material are a series of unpublished reports written by economics students at Hanoi University 1 and various articles in the journal Nghien cuu kinh te (Economic Research).
