Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109539 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
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ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 27
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
Viet Nam has experienced spectacular economic growth over the past decade, in part the result of massive foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. Although much has been written on the impacts of FDI in developing countries, previous studies have generally ignored macroeconomic consequences in cost-benefit assessments. These macroeconomic aspects can be particularly important in transitional economies like Viet Nam, where some of the tools for macroeconomic stabilization may be blunt or unavailable. First, capital inflow growth needs to be accommodated by real exchange rate appreciation. In dollarized economies like Viet Nam, the nominal exchange rate cannot be relied upon to deliver it, so inflation usually results. In these economies, it is also difficult for the central bank to conduct open market operations to sterilize large capital inflows or mop up excess liquidity. Again, this could feed inflation. The combination of a young and inexperienced banking system and an investment-hungry state-owned enterprises (SOE) sector only exacerbates the situation, and increases the risk of imbalances that could result in crisis.
Subjects: 
capital inflow
macroeconomic adjustment
FDI
real exchange rate
Viet Nam
JEL: 
F21
F32
F49
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