Vietnam Assessment : : Creating a Sound Investment Climate / / ed. by Suiwah Leung.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Archive eBook-Package 1970-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Chi, Bui Kim,; Doanh, Le Dang,; Dung, Nguyen Tuan,; Khiem, Nguyen Tri,; Leung, Suiwah,; Maitland, Elizabth,; Vasavakul, Thaveeporn,
• HerausgeberIn: Leung, Suiwah,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (140 p.)

The theme of this volume on Vietnam is "creating a sound investment climate". Vietnam embarked on doi moi or "renovation" of its economy in 1986. Since then, its economy has made a dramatic turnaround, achieving a low-inflation sustained growth for most of the 1990s. However, even at the current high rates of growth, it will still take Vietnam some 15 years to reach the standard of living that Indonesia currently enjoys. Furthermore, decades of sustained growth will require higher rates of investment than in the past, as excess capacity created under central planning is being utilised. A sound investment climate is essential for the fulfilment of Vietnam's ambitions to catch up with other rapidly growing countries in the Asia-Pacific region. An understanding of how to achieve such a climate in Vietnam is essential to an assessment of the country's prospects now and into the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economic developments and prospects -- 3. Policy reform and the microeconomic environment in the agricultural sector -- 4. Politics of the reform of state institutions in the post-socialist era -- 5. Foreign direct investment in Vietnam -- 6 Foreign investor Vietnam: An Australian case study -- 7. Providing legal services in Vietnam: A practitioner's viewpoint -- Index