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Efficient Logistics - A Key to Vietnam's Competitiveness (Paperback)
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Efficient Logistics - A Key to Vietnam's Competitiveness (Paperback)
Series: Directions in Development
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Vietnam has attained a strong record of economic growth and poverty
reduction since the adoption of market-based economic reforms and
pro-poor policies starting in the mid-1980s. Much of this
achievement was driven by an untapped, rapidly-growing labour force
and the enablement of greater labour participation in
higher-productivity sectors of the economy. Yet, as Vietnam has
restructured its economic activity towards manufacturing, more
mechanised primary sector production and increasingly, services,
and as the labour force is projected to expand at a markedly lower
rate than before, finding new sources of productivity improvements
has become the key to sustaining economic growth going forward.
Improvements in freight logistics can unlock productivity gains
across the Vietnamese economy for years to come. The shippers and
carriers that operate the supply chains that connect Vietnam to the
global economy generally perceive that logistics costs in Vietnam -
those incurred when moving, storing and inspecting goods - are more
onerous than in peer economies like China, Malaysia and Thailand,
even as they are also perceived to be more competitive than those
in other developing Asian countries. While many factors may
contribute to costly logistics, the main source of underperformance
in Vietnam's logistics sector appears to be the inventory-carrying
implications of unreliable freight itineraries, unpredictable
inspection and clearance procedures and an uncertain planning,
legal and regulatory framework. By making commerce more
predictable, particularly for regional and inter-continental trade,
more efficient logistics can lower the cost of doing business,
boost competitiveness, attract investment and generate employment.
In short, efficient logistics can become a driver of lasting
growth. Directed at industry practitioners and policy makers alike,
this report highlights five key initiatives to improve the
reliability and cost-effectiveness of transportation and logistics
in Vietnam's domestic and international supply chains. These
include: (i) modernising the customs system more broadly to enable
goods clearance in a consistently timely manner; (ii) enhancing
regulatory transparency to minimise discretion in the regulation of
commerce; (iii) promoting multimodal transport corridor planning;
(iv) enhancing competition and professionalism in the trucking
industry; and (v) deploying capacity more strategically at major
gateways, particularly at Cai Map-Thi Vai.
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