TY - BOOK ID - 30563503 TI - Efficient logistics : a key to Vietnam's competitiveness AU - Blancas, Luis C. AU - World Bank. PY - 2014 SN - 1464801045 1464801037 PB - Washington, DC : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Freight and freightage KW - Business logistics KW - Industrial policy KW - Economic development KW - Vietnam KW - Economic policy. KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Supply chain management KW - Affreightment KW - Cargo KW - Freight handling KW - Transportation KW - Freight KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - Industrial management KW - Logistics KW - Freight transportation KW - Freightage KW - Materials handling UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30563503 AB - Vietnam has attained a strong record of economic growth and poverty reduction since the adoption of market-based economic reforms and pro-poor policies starting in the mid-1980s. Much of this achievement was driven by an untapped, rapidly-growing labor force and the enablement of greater labor participation in higher-productivity sectors of the economy. Yet, as Vietnam has restructured its economic activity towards manufacturing, more mechanized primary sector production and, increasingly, services, and as the labor force is projected to expand at a markedly lower rate than before, finding new ER -