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Light manufacturing in Vietnam : creating jobs and prosperity in a middle-income economy, Paperback / softback Book

Light manufacturing in Vietnam : creating jobs and prosperity in a middle-income economy Paperback / softback

Part of the Directions in development series

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Light Manufacturing in Vietnam makes the case that, if the country is to continue along a rapid economic growth path and create jobs, it must undertake a structural transformation that can lift workers from low-productivity agriculture and the mere assembly of imported inputs to higher-productivity activities.

Vietnam needs to address fundamental issues in the manufacturing sector that, until now, have been masked by economic growth.

The book shows that there is a dichotomy between domestic enterprises and enterprises supported by foreign direct investment.

The dominant state-owned enterprises and foreign-invested firms are often not integrated with smaller, domestic firms through backward or forward links in the use of domestically produced inputs or intermediate products.

Growth in the domestic light manufacturing sector has arisen from the sheer number of micro and small enterprises rather than from expansion in the number of medium and large firms.

As a consequence, final products have little value added; technology and expertise are not shared; and the economy has failed to move up the structural transformation ladder.

This structure of production is one of the reasons Vietnam's rapid process of industrialisation over the last three decades has not been accompanied by a favourable trade balance.

Policy measures to address problems in competitiveness in Vietnam must confront the dual structure of the light manufacturing sector, while raising the value added in the industry.

To that end, measures must be taken to nurture the expansion of small domestic firms, while helping these firms to achieve greater productivity through trade integration.

This will require improvements in labour skills and technology and in the quality and variety of products able to compete with imports.

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