The period covered by the new Five-Year Plan offers Vietnam an opportunity to establish itself as a major export manufacturing hub. Policy priorities will be to improve the business environment so as to nurture the private sector and to attract more inward investment. The key risk is that a stalling of globalisation leaves Vietnam unable to capitalise on its advantages as a stable, low-wage economy close to many major global production chains.
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