DIRECTIONS OF RESTRUCTURING PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN VIETNAM

1. DIRECTIONS OF RESTRUCTURING PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN VIETNAM Dr. Pham Lan Huong Presentation for training course Capacity building program to improve public investment project appraisal in Vietnam Nha Trang, 30/9-2/10, 2013

2. Contents • Contents related to restructuring public investment restructure in Master Plan for Economic restructuring associated to growth model shift in the direction of improving quality, efficiency and competitiveness in the period 2013-2020 (Decision No 339/QĐ-TTg dated feb, 19th, 2013) • Objectives • Resolutions • Preliminary assessment on public investment restructure.

3. CONTENTS OF RESTRUCTURING PUBLIC INVESTMENT

4. Specific objectives of investment restructuring, focusing on public investment • Sensibly mobilise resources for development investment; assure total social investment at 30-35%GDP; maintain major balances at reasonable rate, that including saving, investment and consumption, state budget, trade balance, balance of payment, public debt and sovereignty debt • Maintain state investment at sensible rate of 35-40% total investment; increase investment based on saving; allow for 20-25% budget expenditure on development investment. Basically change the mechanism of capital allocation and management; limit the spread, diverse and wasteful projects, improve state investment efficiency. • Expand the sphere and opportunities for private investment, focusing on domestic sector. Encourage and facilitate private investment in infrastructure development, advantage and potential industries and products as well as dynamic regions.

5. Resolutions – responsibilities of MPI • Restructuring drastically and efficiently • Responsibilities of MPI • Review and complete laws and policies on decentralizing and managing public investment. Develop and propose Law on Public investment that unites management of all types of state investment, enhance regulations, transparency and explanation responsibility related to state investment; strictly controls public debt in prudential limit and maintains national financial security.

6. Resolutions – responsibilities of MPI (2) • Drastically and consistently implement medium-term investment plan, focusing on budget capital for national key projects; spend significant parts of budget for public-private cooperation projects, ODA counterpart funds and cost of land clearance. For national projects that have high efficiency and significant impact on socio-economic deveopment in regions or inter-region, encourage the public-private cooperation or bond issue, strengthen capital mobilization and ensure capital account balance.

7. Resolutions – responsibilities of MPI(3) • Refraing from allocating and investing in industries and sectors that private capital is available, such as commercial services, hotels and restaurants, real estate, construction material an others. • Develop and apply reasonable, effective and and strict process of identifying, assessing, selecting and allocating capital as well as implementing state projects, which meet socio-economic standards; distribute capital to implementing key and urgent projects, limit the spread, diverse, inconsistent and ineffective projects.

8. Resolutions – responsibilities of MPI(4) • Publicize and ensure transparency of information; enhance assignment and capacity of monitoring system; encourage and facilitate community monitoring on public investment project and activities. Strengthen legal and policy enforcement, increase responsibility in monitor and inspection.

9. Resolutions – responsibilities of MoT and others • Ministry of Transport takes charge of reviewing, selecting and allocating adequate and in-time capital for the implementation of prioritized transportation projects; in case of lack of required capital, mobilize capital through public-private cooperation or bond issue; review, decrease and delay projects that lack of capital or can not be transformed. • Ministries and regions review all projects under their management assigment, strictly control sphere and scope of projects in terms of approved objectives and programmes; decide to invest in projects that rightly selected and priorized, with identified capital sources and capacity of distributing capital.

10. Preliminary assessment on public investment restructuring

11. Targeted investment ratio (30-35% GDP)

12. Targeted share of state investment (35-40% of total investment)

13. Assessment of implementation of quantitative targets • In 2011-2012, investment/GDP ratio sharply declined to objective rate. • Public investment decreased most sharply in 2012-2013 (3.3 percentage point), reflecting efforts to actively decrease public investment. However state credit increased rapidly. • FDI inflows was higher than other emerged economies in Asia-Pacific region. • Share of public investment in total investment declined to 38-39%

14. Improved macro balances • Saving-investment gap declined from 13-14% GDP in 2007-08 to 7% GDP and 1.5% GDP in 2010 and 2012 respectively. • Trade balance and current balance have been improved significantly

15. Innovate investment distribution mechanism, management and avoid excessive and extravagant investment • Unimproved investment on infrastructure of economic zones and industrial zones • Many zones can not access to national infrastructure • Lack of clear strategy to adjust EZ and IZ development plan or key plans on infrastructure development • Inadequate investment on infrastructure of new urban residential areas • Excessive development of new urban residence areas in contrast with capital scarcity • Real demand of people on low-cost housing, trade services, social infrastructure can not be statisfied • Sea-ports • Excessive capacity of new ports • Supporting infrastructure is not completed • Guidelines/policies are not properly obeyed (i.e. the removal of HCMC port)

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