Development in a Developing Country?

As the trip nears its end, I try and find a common theme in which we have been forced to face these past three weeks.

During week 2, we spoke with a women at a university who informed us about the economic development in Vietnam. It seemed that every other sentence she uttered reiterated her thoughts that Vietnam was progressing and reforming. As a young, educated young woman of Vietnam, she was taking the steps to changing the academic and economical atmosphere of her country.

When we had spoken with Christophe at the CET office on the 22nd, he spoke a great deal about the character of the people and how most are forced to live in extreme poverty with little action to help their situation from the Vietnemese government. He seemed doubtful of the potential for massive change.

I believe that as much many people here greatly desire for Vietnam to progress to a westernized nation, I don’t think that this can be possible in the near future, or future at all, if a major change is not made. With the communist government as it is, a lack of transparency is ever present. This “opeque” system of government, economy, health care, and sanitization within Vietnam is largely stunting the growth of this country. People must begin to respect their government, which can only begin to happen once corruption is limit is necessary.

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