A durable manufacturing-export surplus and the lowest unemployment rate in this programme, alongside genuine governance and fiscal-data gaps
Vietnam combines a substantial current account surplus (6.33% of GDP, 2024) -- consistent with its manufacturing-export-driven growth model -- with the lowest unemployment rate (1.52%) of any country in this research programme. GDP per capita ($5,066) places it in the same income tier as Indonesia, materially below the other economies profiled so far. Governance scores are negative on both Control of Corruption (-0.25) and Rule of Law (-0.31, 2024). Government debt is confirmed genuinely unavailable from World Bank for Vietnam -- the same class of gap already found for Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia in this programme.
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