Vietnam: The Next Asian Tiger?

Tom Barker () and Murat Üngör
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Tom Barker: Macro Financial Department, Reserve bank of New Zealand

No 3, Working Papers from New Zealand Centre of Macroeconomics

Abstract: This paper analyzes how trade integration may affect international financial flows in a world with heterogeneous financial development. In the presence of financial frictions and sector-specific minimum investment requirements, the static gains from trade trigger the cross-sector investment reallocation on the extensive margin, which may allow the more financially developed country (North) to offshore low-return production activities and upgrade to high-return activities. This way, trade-driven sectoral upgrading in North becomes a mechanism through which the substantial decline in trade and communication costs and the resulting boom in supply-chain trade may contribute to the global imbalances in the recent decades.We investigate the growth experience of Vietnam, the country which has been getting recent attention as being the next emerging giant. First, we present an aggregate level investigation of Vietnam\'92s economic growth experience, since the inauguration of reform in 1986 known as Doi Moi. Second, we build a two-sector general equilibrium model, investigating the secular decline in agricultural employment. We conduct aquantitative analysis using a theoretical framework, with an emphasis on the counterfactual outcomes of inheriting Chinese sectoral productivity growth rates, where China is recognized as the paragon emerging economy. The main findings are: (i) Vietnam has grown impressively since 1986, but is still a relatively poor country in absolute terms; (ii) Vietnam must decrease its reliance on factor accumulation as its source of growth and increase its technological capabilities; (iii) economic policies should equally target both agricultural and nonagricultural sectors to increase sectoral productivity growth rates in Vietnam.\

Keywords: Vietnam; capital formation; convergence; deagriculturalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N10 O47 O53 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2018
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