A publication resulting from a collaboration between two 2022-2023 Iméra residents, Harutaka Takahashi, an economist, and Gerard Sasges, a historian, was published in the journal International Economics at the end of August 2025.
A collaboration between economics and history
Iméra aims to be a place of encounters and a place for collective emulation, thanks to interactions between residents and between fields of study. This is exactly what the connection between Harutaka Takahashi and Gerard Sasges embodies. Both residents for the 2022-2023 academic year, they were able to discuss and combine their respective fields, economics and history, to conduct new research.
Together, they co-wrote the article Assessing the influence of three policies on Vietnam’s economic development: Electricity infrastructure, globalization, and privatization during their residency. Their interdisciplinary collaboration continued beyond Iméra until publication.
About the publication
Combining the history of Vietnam and the study of its economic development, this research work assesses the contributions of three key policies – electricity infrastructure, globalisation and privatisation – to Vietnam’s economic development between 1980 and 2018.
Citation: Sasges, G., & Takahashi, H. (2025). Assessing the influence of three policies on Vietnam’s economic development : Electricity infrastructure, globalization, and privatization. International Economics, 100632.
About the authors
- Harutaka Takahashi held the AMSE/Iméra Chair – A world in crisis 2022-2023.
- Gerard Sasges was part of the FIAS fellowship programme in 2022-2023, supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie contract no. 945408.
