Regions and Countries

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Country Assistance Plans - Viet Nam

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VIII. Economic and Sector Work Program

83. Economic and sector work (ESW) in Viet Nam during recent years has focused on examining sector level policy issues and identifying the institutional constraints that hamper policy and program implementation. Specifically, such ESW entailed a diagnostic study on governance issues; an energy sector profile; a social sector financing study; operational papers on rural infrastructure and water resource management; and a comparative analysis of environment and natural resources management issues in GMS countries. ADB also organized workshops on governance, macroeconomic management, and public administration reform.

84. As the Government continues in the preparation of the Five Year Socio-Economic Development Plan (2001-2005), and Development Strategy for 2001-2010, and the Bank develops the new CSP for Viet Nam, further analysis will be carried out, both on general issues and for the sectors of ADB involvement, through a combination of ADB and Government in-house resources and TA. The guiding effort for ESW will be the preparation of a poverty reduction strategy, largely in conjunction with other aid agencies as outlined in paras. 36 and 73. At the sector level, the possible role of ADB in the health sector and in rural finance will be reviewed in 2000, along with the preparation of strategies for governance, secondary education, and the energy sector, and the analysis of policy reform needs in the agriculture and financial sector. In order to better design future ADB operations, the following issues will be further analyzed after 2000: constraints to SME development; the linkage between social safety nets and financial markets; upland migration and social development; the institutions and policies for coastal resources management; the scope for provincial and district towns urban development and low income housing finance; the central region transport network; governance of irrigation and water services; and power sector road institutions and policies.

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