NGUYỄN TẤN VINH
IMPACT OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON ECONOMIC STRUCTUAL CHANGE IN HO CHI MINH CITY
Major: Code:
Economics 62.31.03.01
Supervisor:
1. Dr. Nguyễn Tiến Dũng 2. Dr. Lê Tuấn Lộc
DOCTORAL THESIS SUMMARY
Ho Chi Minh City - 2011
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INTRODUCTION 1. Problem statement Industrialization and modernization of the economy and proactive international economic integration are the pressing issues for countries at low level of economic development. Raising the level and extent of the resources and building up a modern and sustained economic structure are of the core contents. Structural transformation becomes an objective factor of the development of national economy in the globalization era. FDI has an important role and through FDI, the host country has an opportunity to participate in the international division of labor, thereby raising the level of development, creating a driving force for structural transformation. Vietnam has always paid a great attention to attracting FDI to supplement the investment capital for development, promoting economic structural change. FDI has spillover effects to the economic sectors, and contribute to modernization of the economy, but FDI does not always have a positive impact. Therefore, if not analyzing of weaknesses in attracting and using FDI, we cannot draw possible solutions to promote positive and minimize negative impacts from to transfer funds ECONOMIC STUCTURAL. Ho Chi Minh City, a major economic center of the region and the country, has a dominant role over the capability of the country’s economic growth. The city is the one that leads the attraction of FDI, has the advantage in building a modern economic structure and gradually implement development in depth. Analyzing whether FDI actually affects the economic structural change or not? If so, to what extent? And how to promote the positive aspects and minimize