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Admission to WTO-opportunities and challenges

Vietnam's objective of socio-economic development in 2020 is quite ambitious, namely, to narrow down its gap with the world and "basically to become an industrial country". In order to reach these objectives Vietnam should: -Accelerating institutional reforms to build an advanced market economy so as to integrate itself effectively into the international community. -Raising the economic growth and ensure a sustainable development. How will these two difficult objectives be obtained? The answer to this question has now become clear, one of the important suggestions is to base on the integration and to get admitted to WTO. But as Vietnam is a late arrival to WTO in a context of a rapid changing world and faced with a strong pressure from various sides, apart from the opportunities WTO admission will bring about, it will also create more problems and more difficult challenges than it did to the earlier members. The cost that Vietnam has to pay for integration is surely not so small. On the threshold of WTO admission the assessment of the impact of integration on Vietnam should be taken into consideration. This article is designed to identify the following issues: 1."The starting point" of Vietnam's economic integration into the world economy. 2.The tendency of globalization and the development of the world today. These are the two factors that identify the essence of the opportunities and challenges that the international integration has created for Vietnam and how they would be settled. 3.Prediction of the impact of WTO membership on both Vietnam's macro economy and on specific fields. 4.Some suggestions for the pre-and post-WTO membership.

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Some problems related to the social in welfares Vietnam's rural areas

For over the last two decades of doi moi major progress has been made in agriculture and in rural development, and the living standards of farmers have improved a great deal. Nevertheless the transformation of centrally planning economy into market economy has brought about an appropriate social welfares for farmers, that is why the problem has become an urgency that needs a solution. The article is designed to identify the problems. The main contents include: 1.The need to formulate social welfares for farmers in rural areas. 2.Social welfares policy for farmers in rural areas-the theory and reality in Vietnam. 3.Some suggestions for social welfares policy for farmers in the coming years. -Formulating a national social welfares scheme, under which to ensure the security for people in rural areas. -An insurance law needs to be issued soon so as to realize the social insurance policy in general and for farmers in particular. -Raising the state role in providing social support to farmers, especially in terms of social insurance policy for farmers.

The state role in shaping real estate markets

In an advanced market economy the state role does not go down but on the contrary it rises in a context of market behavior-especially in sensitive markets, so that it enables to ensure the operation of a healthy market economy and to avoid causing damage to economy, in which the real estate market is one of these sensitive markets. Major contents of the article include: 1.The tasks and rights of the state in term of its management over the real estate market. 2.The state should create a legal framework for the real estate market. 3.The state should formulate transparent and open policies to support the real estate market. 4.The state is involved as the owner and user of a large scale real estate market. 5.The state role in shaping a real estate market. As the state is the representative for people ownership of the land, in oder to shape the real estate market the first thing that the state should do is to hand the land use rights to the organizations and households as stipulated by the law. The state should not pursue a policy of discrimination for different economic sectors.