This paper evaluates Vietnam’s Second Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth … Facility (PRGF) and Request for Waiver of Performance Criteria. Under the first-year PRGF, Vietnam’s economic performance was … investment and competitiveness as the bases for returning Vietnam’s rates of growth and poverty reduction closer to potential …

Vietnam's economic recovery from the spillover effects of the Asian crisis has continued and the pace of policy reform …