Vì sao Việtnam là điểm nóng của đầu tư quốc tế

Vì sao Việtnam là điểm nóng của đầu tư quốc tế

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Why Việt Nam ?

Is the Philippines such an attractive investment site that giving incentives isn?Tt necessary?

Let?Ts take just one country, the one that wouldn?Tt even have been considered 10 years ago.

Ten years ago, the Philippines was being compared to the rest of the Asean-5: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. Today all of them are far ahead. Well, Indonesia has a few problems too, and as in the case of the Philippines, these problems show up in the investment numbers.

That one is Vietnam. Ten years ago, it wasn?Tt even on the radar screen. Vietnam has 85 million people, so it?Ts the same demographic size as the Philippines. Ten years ago, its gross domestic product was $20.7 billion, for a per capita GDP of $290. The Philippines was an almost $75 billion economy for $1,000 per person.

Today, Vietnam?Ts per capita GDP is estimated at $726 per person. It has since increased 150 percent. On the other hand, Philippine figures for the same period were up a much more modest 34 percent to $1,340 per person.

Vietnam is growing at 8 percent. The Philippines is growing 5.5 percent. Vietnam attracted $9.5 billion of foreign investment in 2006. The Philippines cornered some $2 billion, with almost half of that for expansion of existing companies. Clearly, it does not denote confidence the way new investments would.

Vietnam?Ts labor cost is $93/per month. The figure is double for the Philippines at $178.

Electricity cost for business is 5-6 US cents/kwh versus 10 US cents/kwh here?"again, double.

Vietnam does not tax raw materials, components for export; profit repatriation or capital equipment.

The Philippines taxes them all. Am I getting the message across? Vietnam offers a 10 to 15 year holiday. You have to wonder why the $2 billion of foreign direct investments that did come here, did come here at all, don?Tt you