| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 政治經濟學研究所 === 95 === Since the late 20th century, globalization has gradually become an irresistible trend, flowing into Vietnam to form a process compatible with chances and challenges and it indeed bears both the unpreditable risks and unextimated interests. Though after the reform, it has definately maked steady economic growth in Vietnam, but the huge gap between the rich and the poor, and the impoverish living of peasants still remain as urgent problems. The risks of globalization not merely come from external strikes, but also derive from the inside long-standing corruption. And how Vietnam would response to the challenge of globalization must be based on deepening internal reforms for getting a way out.
Coffee is the second largest future in the world, only less than petroleum. From 1994 to 2006, the quantity of cafes in U.S.A has grown 7 times more, while the production of coffee beans in Vietnam has vibrantly increased to nearly 1 million tons, but the price of it has curiously broken the lowest record over the past 30 years. These years, coffee has driven whole world crazy because mixer taking Espresso as bottom justice type with bad smell beans to blend coffee has become main stream in present market. Due to permission of mixing low-priced beans within normal ones, coffee growers around the globe has been thrilled to produce lower-class coffee beans like Robusta in large scale, which eventually makes Vietnam become the second largest coffee bean exporter in the world. This text will probe that under the influence of economic globalization, the vigorous growth of coffee industry in Vietnam has destroyed the equilibrium of global coffee market, making the price of global coffee bean fall drastically instead of rising, and under such pressure, peasants must to plant more coffee, inducing overproduction, then crushes the price to collapse, which molds the endless vicious circle.
Whether economic globalization is for promoting the free trade globally, or it is just a dirty tool to satisfy the greedy for benefits of developed countries for forming another colonized economy? This text will present the rising of Vietnam coffee industry, probing into the main factors of price dropping in recent years, based on globalization theory and the world system theory, to prove the interactive relationships among the developed countries, Vietnamese government, Vietnamese coffee industry and its production, marketing, market, policy, etc., in the economic globalization. By analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the Vietnamese coffee industry, to propose feasible suggestions, it will lead the Vietnamese coffee industry to stand firmly in the swift tide of globalization, and further turn crisis into chances, improving the living of peasants, finally, promoting the economy development of poor Vietnam.
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