... Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978, installed a puppet regime and "freed" Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge. This action was condemned by many countries including China, which attacked Vietnam as a punitive measure. Many western countries followed a previously imposed embargo by the U.S. Since then, Vietnam became internationally isolated until ... constitute around 30% in 1995, up from 23% in 1990. Similarly, the services sector has grown to 43% of total GDP, up from 39% in 1990. The GDP growth rate reached a record high of 9.5 in 1995. The obvious and immediate engine of growth was the expans...

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... have chosen to evaluate Vietnam's economic performance because Vietnam is unique among the transitional economies in several respects: like its giant neighbour China, it has retained a socialist one party political monopoly , taken a gradualist approach to reform, and its reform programme "doi moi ... achieving some economic targets. With these goals in mind, Vietnam raised capital investment to develop a production force with the main activities of expanding and building State-owned business, especially heavy industry. However, the results from the expansion of socialism economic ... at...

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