Viet Nam Annual Economic Report 2018: Understanding the Labor Market for Productivity Enhancement

Viet Nam Annual Economic Report 2018, entitled “Understanding the Labor Market for Productivity Enhancement”, is conducted in the context of economic rebound, along with the global trend. However, Viet Nam’s quality of growth is still low compared to other countries in the region and the world, evidenced by the indicators of capital-use efficiency and labor productivity. Thus, this year’s Report focuses on Viet Nam’s productivity in the international context, where there are different points of view about the need of understanding the labor market to explain the quality of human capital and productivity.