Southeast Asian Affairs, January 1st, 2000
During the eighteen-month period from the onset of the Asian financial crisis to late 1998, the VCP's Central Committee met three times (December 1997, July 1998, and October 1998). It was only at the October meeting, the sixth plenum (first session), that economic issues were discussed in detail. The plenum's final communiqué declared Vietnam had achieved a "big success" because it had maintained political stability and a 6 per cent GDP growth rate. Priority was placed on agriculture and rural development.
The October 1998 sixth plenary meeting was a split session. This is highly unusual, i...
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