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Q4 2018 New Markets Investor

The magazine targets an audience of corporate and private investors, but its lucid voice makes it intelligible and essential reading for anybody who wants to understand investment strategies and markets in the 21st century.

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Q3 2016<br />

Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam<br />

registered in the first half of 2016 reached<br />

more than US$11.2 billion.<br />

Vietnam has topped an EM index for greenfield foreign<br />

direct investment for the second year running, ranking<br />

far ahead of other new economies.<br />

The Southeast Asian country came top in the second<br />

annual study of 14 countries by fDi Intelligence, an<br />

FT data division, which looked at inbound greenfield<br />

investment in 2015 relative to the size of each country’s<br />

economy.Vietnam’s performance cements several<br />

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years of efforts to make its economy more receptive to<br />

investment.<br />

According to the World Bank’s latest Doing Business<br />

report, improvements include reducing the time taken<br />

to register a company and to get it connected to the<br />

electricity supply, better access to information on credit<br />

and cuts in the rate of corporate income tax, as well as

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