Ngoc Pham Quang & Thanh Nguyen Duc, 2005, "Structural change and economic performance of Vietnam, 1976-2000", Singapore Economic Review Conference (SERC) 2005, organised by the Singapore Economic Review, 4 – 6 August, Singapore.
Keywords: economic history, Vietnamese economy, transition economy, structural change,economic growth, development economics.

Abstract:
This study provides a concise introduction to the economic history of Vietnam from 1976 to present, with a focus on the Vietnamese economy’s structural change and its performance.

The paper identifies different phases of the development of the Vietnamese economy, from its unification after a long war in 1976 and the adoption of the Russian central planning model, through its nation-wide crisis, and thus a beginning of transition to a market economy from1986-1989, to the current phases of the transition (1989-2000).

The interrelationships between the structural change and economic performance are investigated from five aspects:

(i) evolution of domestic final demand,

(ii)international trade structure

(iii) ownership restructuring.