Thursday, October 26, 2006

The newest Asian tiger

Vietnam’s Roaring Economy Is Set for World Stage

I thought that this statistic was particularly amazing: "Vietnam has reduced the percentage of its people living in abject poverty — less than $1 a day — to 8 percent from 51 percent in 1990, a greater advance than either China or India." Growth while reducing poverty, how great is that.

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