Vietnam, in principle, maintains a policy of encouragement of foreign investment. A crucial element in its long-term development strategy is the continued ability to attract and utilize relatively large amounts of overseas capital, both foreign direct investment (FDI) and official development assistance (ODA). Vietnam does not yet allow any significant foreign portfolio investment. For the 2001-2005 period, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) has established targets for FDI at $11 billion in disbursements from existing and newly licensed foreign investments and for approximately $10-11 billion in ODA disbursed by foreign donors for a total of $21-22 billion from foreign sources. These levels of FDI and ODA estimates are required to support the government’s GDP growth target of 7.5 percent per year.

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The Impact of the BTA: Robust U.S. investment in Vietnam!

...U.S.-related FDI has increased strongly since the coming into effect of the BTA, growing by an average of 27 percent a year from 2002 through 2004 compared to just around 3 percent a year from 1996 to 2001 (see Figure 1 and Table 8 in the text). In 2004, U.S.-related FDI of US$531 million was the largest type of FDI into Vietnam, above FDI sourced from Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, ...

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