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Where have all the skilled laborers gone? (To better-paying jobs.)

Monday, November 12th, 2007

HANOI, Vietnam — Life is pretty good for the members of the Hanoi Young Business Association.

The Vietnamese economy is booming, salaries and profits are rising, recent WTO accession has been a big step in the country’s increasingly open and internationally integrated market economy, … Continue Reading…

Greetings from Vietnam, formerly “Really Wider Europe”

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

HANOI, Vietnam — Over the next week, this blog space will see some posts from Vietnam and Cambodia, where a few GMF staffers are accompanying a group of American and European journalists to the region to look at trade, development, aid, economics, and other issues. We’ll attempt to get at … Continue Reading…