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I. Post-War Vietnamese Economy
- Disastrous economy in 1980s and early 1990s
- Vietnamese occupation of Laos and Cambodia
- Bureaucratic inefficiency; Stifled entrepreneurial spirit
- Nationalization of industries and land
- Need for reconstruction of destroyed areas
- Natural disasters: floods, droughts, typhoons
- Sixth Party Congress of Communist Party 1986
- Doi Moi - renovation
- End of Soviet Support
- Growth of foreign investment - 1989
- Legal framework
- Return of land to peasants
- Privatization
- Rice self-sufficiency
- Gap between northern and southern Vietnam
- Eighth Communist Party Congress June - July 1996
- Commitment to economic reform
- Continuation of Political centralization
- Single party dominance
- Tight control over social pathologies
- Disdain for western democracy
- Continuation of gerentocracy
- U.S. Relations with Vietnam
- Lifting of the Embargo 1995
- U.S. Diplomatic Relations 1996
- Reasons for normalization and lifting embargo
- Getting diplomats in country
- Economic opportunities in "new economic frontier"
- Rest of the world had made peace with Vietnam
- Future of Vietnam
- Outside forces
- Democratization
- Capitalism
- Internal forces
- Rise of middle class
- Tourism
- Internationalization of economy
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