Monetary in Vietnam: Alternatives to Inflation Targeting

Monetary Policy in Vietnam: Alternatives to Inflation Targeting

Le Anh Tu Packard ([e-mail])

Fifth Draft July 2007

Paper prepared for the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with support from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). Earlier versions of this paper were presented to the May 2005 CEDES/Amherst Research Conference in Buenos Aires and the July 2005 Da Nang Symposium on Continuing Renovation of the Economy and Society. Financial support for this project has been provided by the Ford Foundation, UNDESA, and the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. My gratitude and thanks go to two anonymous referees, Gerald Epstein, Erinc Yeldan, Jaime Ros, Lance Taylor, Per Berglund, and Phillipe Scholtes for their insightful comments and valuable ideas, and also to numerous colleagues in Vietnam including Dang Nhu Van for their helpful feedback. I am responsible for all remaining errors and omissions.

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
ASEAN BFTV BIDV CEPT CIEM CMEA CPRGS DAF FDI FIE GC GDI GDP GNP GSO HDI IMF JV NEER ODA PE PER PRGF PRSC RCC REER ROSCA SBV SOCB SOE UCC UNDP VCP VLSS WTO Association of South East Asian Nations Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam Common Effective Preferential Tariff Central Institute for Economic Management Council of Mutual Economic Assistance Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy Development Assistance Fund Foreign Direct Investment Foreign-Invested Enterprise General Corporation Gender-related Development Index Gross Domestic Product Gross National Product General Statistical Office Human Development Index International Monetary Fund Joint Venture Nominal Effective Exchange Rate Official Development Assistance Private Enterprise Public Expenditure Review Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Poverty Reduction Support Credit Rural Credit Cooperative Real Effective Exchange

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