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Raumwirtschaft als Erfolgserlebnis – Wie Vietnam seinen wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg untermauert
Vietnam’s Policy of Economic Zoning
[journal article]
Abstract It took the Vietnamese reformers only five years to realize that quick development of their country’s
economy could be pushed forward not only by work and capital, but also by utilizing the factor
space. Capitalizing on the experiences of several maritime Southeast Asian countries with “Growth
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It took the Vietnamese reformers only five years to realize that quick development of their country’s
economy could be pushed forward not only by work and capital, but also by utilizing the factor
space. Capitalizing on the experiences of several maritime Southeast Asian countries with “Growth
Triangles” as well as of “Silicon Valley Industrial Park”, of Taiwan and of China with their “Special
Economic Zones”, Vietnam decided in 1991 to establish its first “Special Economic Zone” (SEZ)
in Tan Thuan/Saigon. During the following fifteen years three so-called “Key Economic Areas”
and 140 “Industrial Zones”, “Export Processing Zones” and other units with similar names have
been created.
The SEZ have proven to be cornucopias on the one hand, because they helped to accelerate
the transfer of capital, technology and management to Vietnam and provided almost 1 million jobs.
Furthermore they served as catalysts for the industrialization and urbanization of some areas and
served, moreover, as models of dealing with the complexities of modernization. On the other side,
the SEZ are extremely unequally distributed over the country, and therefore tend to reinforce the
social and regional differences within Vietnam. Moreover, foreign companies to be invested in
the SEZ frequently have to lead a Robinson Crusoe existence and are therefore rather insulated
from the domestic economy. Last but not least however, the Vietnamese legislation, facing the SEZ
proves frequently to be a toothless tiger.... view less
Keywords
economic development (on national level); Vietnam; reform policy; economic policy; spatial planning; economic success; economic area
Classification
Economic Policy
Document language
German
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 79-97
Journal
Südostasien aktuell : journal of current Southeast Asian affairs, 26 (2007) 6
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works