{"id":117575,"date":"2025-10-12T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117575\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:18:11","slug":"vietnam-excites-investors-with-dramatic-economic-reform-program-new-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117575\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Excites Investors With Dramatic Economic Reform Program: New Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><strong>Just months after Donald Trump<\/strong> singled out Vietnam for one of the most punitive tariff rates on a major US trading partner, the Southeast Asian nation\u2019s stock market has soared, its GDP growth is beating almost all estimates and it\u2019s even managed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-16\/vietnam-urges-us-to-rethink-seafood-ban-as-trade-talks-grind-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">deal of sorts<\/a> with the mercurial American president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The VN stock index hit a fresh record this week after Vietnam won an upgrade to \u201cemerging market\u201d status from FTSE Russell, one of the world\u2019s biggest benchmark providers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-07\/ftse-to-upgrade-vietnam-to-emerging-market-status-from-frontier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">moving up a notch<\/a> from \u201cfrontier,\u201d which is viewed as riskier and more volatile. That was after years of capital-market reforms, which are continuing under the country\u2019s current leader, Communist Party General Secretary To Lam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just months after Donald Trump singled out Vietnam for one of the most punitive tariff rates on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[2786,79,381,10948,184,179,18,9207,17724,10588,19,17,11154,72014,1999,72015,6535],"class_list":{"0":"post-117575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-john-trump","12":"tag-economics","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-gdp","16":"tag-global-trade","17":"tag-hanoi","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-new-economy","21":"tag-pak-lam-to","22":"tag-singapore","23":"tag-stock-index","24":"tag-vietnam"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}