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09 May, 2015
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I
would like to begin my acknowledgements with a
quotation from William Arthur Ward, author of “Fountains of Faith” and one of
the most famous American writers: “The mediocre
teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires”.
The
first words, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my academic
advisor, Professor Masako Ii. Her inspiration both in my academic and personal
life during the two years in Japan
I
would like to express my appreciativeness to all the faculty members in the
Asian Public Policy
Program (APPP): Prof. Yasuhiro Maehara, Prof. Masahiko Takeda, Prof. Shigeki
Kunieda and Prof Akira Ariyoshi as well as all other professors in APPP. Their thorough explanations and
clear demonstrations have given me a good understanding of basic economic concepts and theories as
well as complicated models that enable me to become a good policy maker. They
set a good example of world-class scholars and researchers for all batches of
students in APPP by their professional and respectable characteristics.
I
am also thankful to Prof. Stephen Kentwell for his careful and thorough
proof-reading of this paper along with his precious comments and suggestions.
Before I came to Japan
I feel indebted to Ms. Yuri Okamoto, the program manager of APPP,
who always gave the best assistance and most favorable conditions for my study.
Throughout the whole course, Ms. Okamoto always supported, encouraged me and
sometimes even made me felt special by her birthday gifts, wishes and e-cards
full of inspirational quotes which made me believe I could achieve the impossible.
My thanks are also conveyed to the staff of the APPP program office for helping
me obtaining CEIC data for this paper.
Regarding data for this paper, I am grateful to Mr Nguyen Hoang Ha, Mr Bui
Huy Hoang, Mr Dang Huyen Linh, Mr Giang Thanh Long, and Ms Le Thi Thanh Thuy as
their continuous provision of Vietnam
Among
my friends, first of all, I would like to express my appreciation to my group
members in the “Empirical
Analytics of Macroeconomics Policy” course: Akmal, Bien, Mau, and Sulaiman. Through one
month working closely together as a team preparing for a presentation assignment, I
found “current account analysis” relevant to the contemporary context of Vietnam
To my friends
in Odaiba: Bien and Sulaiman (yes, you again, you are really my close friends),
I would like to say “thank you very much” (to Bien: “maraming salamat sa iyo”,
to Sulaiman: “Большое
спасибо”)
for everything we have done together: going to school everyday, group-studying
to “survive” exams, playing badminton, bowling, traveling and all other things
that made me feel
happy and experience a real life beside learning in Japan. What you did to me
had changed me a lot. I would like to thank my senpais: David, Jed, and Rhea
for their assistance that made
my learning path easier with
less burden. I also would like to thank my kohais: Hai Anh, Ish, and Trang for
their delights and smiles brightening my days in Odaiba.
I would like
to thank my Vietnamese friends: Huong, Tam, and Tu with whom I spent two years
studying together right from the first days I set foot on the soil of Japan
I would like
to thank my seminar mates Elan, Lin, Thuy, Aziz, Eric, Feri, Coco ,
Gabe, Ridhwan for their true interest in and “helpful doubt” regarding my thesis, which were a
constant source of hints for
me during the
research process.
I am grateful
to the Japan
International Cooperation Center (JICE) and Vietnam ’s Ministry of Planning
and Investment and Agency for Enterprise Development which gave me this opportunity and financial
sponsorship to
pursue my knowledge
horizon in Japan
Finally, I am grateful to
my parents whose boundless love and understanding and always being proud of me gave
me perseverance to accomplish the study.
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