Vietnam is one of the best-performing developing economies in the world. When the World Bank re-engaged with Vietnam in 1993, income per capita was US$170. Today it is US$620, and by 2010 it could reach US$1,000. Electricity, once a luxury, is now commonplace. Clean water is more accessible. Vietnam is expected to achieve by 2015 most of the ambitious Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations.

Q & A with Klaus Rohland, former Country Director for Vietnam: "There’s probably no other country in the world that has moved its development so far and so fast (...) But Vietnam also realizes that the more difficult choices are yet to come..." Read More