Vietnam data published over the next few days will almost certainly confirm that the economy has picked up speed and is now expanding close to the government’s target pace of 6.5% y/y. It is likely that GDP growth will rise further in the second half of 2010, but the downside of this is that annual inflation will probably not slow much more. The merchandise trade deficit looks set to remain wide too.
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