IMF Staff Country Reports

Vietnam: Selected Issues

July 19, 1999

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes performance of the Vietnamese economy during the 1990s. It reviews recent monetary and banking developments, and provides an assessment of the main problems in the banking sector. The paper highlights that during the late 1990s, Vietnam’s banking sector came under mounting pressure from the slowdown in growth and the weakening financial position of state-owned enterprises. In addition, problems emerged from banks’ large foreign exchange exposure, accumulation of nonperforming loans, weak capital base, and low profitability.

Subject: Balance of payments, Banking, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Foreign direct investment, Loans, Public enterprises, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Bank, Banking reform, Banking system reform, Commercial banks, CR, Eastern Europe, Enterprise, FDI inflow, Foreign direct investment, ISCR, Loans, Public enterprises, Reform effort, SOE reform, Tariffs, Vietnam

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    72

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1999/055

  • Stock No:

    1VNMEA0011999

  • ISBN:

    9781451840155

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685