Suchergebnisse

Becoming member of theWorld Trade Organisation was the decisive follow-up of Vietnam's reform
resolutions taken in 1986. Nevertheless the process of acceding the "club" was not a walkover but
took the SRV not less than two decades, marked by seven steps: The doi-moi-resolution (1986),
the normalization of her relationship with the international financial organisations (1993), the
formal applying for membership to the WTO (1995), the membership of the ASEAN (1995), of
the ASEM (1996) and of the APEC (1998), and the accession to the WTO (2006/07). Having
achieved this final destination, Vietnam's expectations continue to be strangely mixed. On the one
hand there are at least three great opportunities for the country: to join the global trade market, to
absorb capital, know-how and management, and to improve its status in the international economy
and politics.
On the other hand Vietnam has to meet several challenges coming up in different realms: The
SRV is partially afraid of becoming confronted with a disintegration of its economy: Whereas the
strong secondary sector is supposed to continue to grow, the service industry and particularly the
agriculture may decline at the same time. Functionally there is much concern about efficiency
and competitiveness of the economy in general and about the qualification of workers and the
flexibility of the state owned enterprises in particular. Last not least there remains a conceptional
problem to be settled which could trouble the political leadership. The more the Vietnamese
enterprises are sticking to WTO-rules, the more the authoritarian tutelage of the CPV-leadership
is becoming undermin