Talk:Economy of Vietnam
Point of view error or possible vandalism in "Agriculture and Industry" section. Someone wrote "They don't even have an economy." Somebody please take a look!
The vast majority of the text in this article was copied wholesale (and without any acknowledgement, I might add) from an external website. The main problem with it is that it reads like a column from an American investor's magazine, dealing with the Vietnamese economy in terms of what a foreign businessman needs to know, not in terms of how the economy itself actually works. The other problem is the article's obvious, overwhelming bias and POV. Take a look at this quote, for example:
- "Substantial reforms to create a sound banking system and privatize state-owned enterprises need to be speeded up."
It's not just POV, it's actually giving advice on what the Vietnamese government "should" do! The next time you copy some external article into Wikipedia, please proofread it first. I have made extensive edits to the article in order to NPOV it, but I couldn't solve the problem of the lack of information on the actual mechanisms of the Vietnamese economy. Mihnea Tudoreanu 23:48, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Another, equally important issue is that the article only deals with Vietnam's economy after 1986. I have put up a notice to encourage contributions regarding the pre-Doi Moi era. Mihnea Tudoreanu 23:48, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Actually, Nationmaster, your external link, copies from Wikipedia. However, you are right, in that the text here was (although I haven't checked specifically, I can assume) copied from the CIA World Factbook. Adam Bishop 23:51, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Dong dilemma
See estimate by the International Monetary Fund with figures in millions of new Vietnamese Dong.
| Year | Gross Domestic Product | US Dollar Exchange |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5,713 | 0.20 New Dong (2.05 Old Dong) |
| 1985 | 100,464 | 6.69 New Dong (66.9 Old Dong) |
| 1990 | 41,955,000 | 6,482.54 Newer Dong? |
I have a situation. The above IMF estimates are restrospectively adjusted for new Dong only. So, they don't show devaluation in 1985 when 10 old Dong was replaced by 1 new Dong. In 1985, $ purchased 66.9 Dong before devaluation and 6.69 Dong after devaluation. I have corrected the article to reflect the change like here. But I am not sure about the cause of sudden plunge in the late Eighties. Can anybody confirm if there was another devaluation then or was it just the result of market pressure of the same currency introduced in 1985. Also, please confirm if the present Dong was the one introduced in 1985? After 1990, there seems to be no problem. Anwar 23:01, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
oil?
I have read they are self-sufficient oil someone who knows more needs to fill in.