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The study outlines the socioeconomic
development strategy for Vietnam, during the first decade of
the twenty first century, envisaging sustainable economic
development, to rapidly adjust to social stability, while
maintaining cultural, and traditional ties. The aim is to
become a socialist market economy, fully integrated into the
global economy, internationally competitive, with
characteristics of an industrialized, and knowledge-based
society within twenty years. This vision articulates the
eradication of hunger, and hard-core poverty, emphasizing
universal lower secondary education. Likewise, it intends to
reduce child malnutrition, increase life expectancy, and
raise access to clean water in urban areas. However, the
vision requires a doubling of the GDP by 2010, through
increased investments and growing exports, declining
agricultural inputs, but increasing the industrial, and
services share. Part I of the report, still undergoing
extensive consultations within the Government, and civil
society, provides the strategic directions for the country,
examining enterprise development, rural development, human
and social development, infrastructure, environmental
quality, and governance. Part II addresses stronger
partnerships to help the Government implement this strategy,
through a series of thematic notes, which describe donor
participation, and international development assistance.
