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Vietnam Risks Biggest East Asia IMF Rescue Since 1990s
By Bloomberg News on September 06, 2012
Vietnam risks becoming the biggest East Asian economy to seek an International Monetary Fund rescue loan since the region’s financial crisis more than a decade ago as it moves to support a faltering banking system.
The nation may need IMF aid to recapitalize banks and must act quickly to clean up bad debt or risk “prolonged stagnation,” the National Assembly’s economic committee said in a Sept. 4 report published on its website yesterday. The financial system needs an injection of 250 trillion dong ($12 billion) to 300 trillion dong, according to the 298-page report that included recommendations to address economic risks. ...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s government is struggling to regain confidence in Vietnam after the arrest of a banking tycoon last month highlighted the frailty of a financial system hobbled by
Southeast Asia’s highest bad debt levels. Growth slowed to 4.4 percent in the first half of this year from 8.5 percent in 2007 as lending stagnated, damping state revenue and crimping the country’s ability to rescue banks.
“Vietnam got itself into this mess and the government will have to take responsibility to solve this before it worsens,” said Gareth Leather, an economist at Capital Economics Ltd. in London. “Credit has been one of the main drivers of the economy and you’re not going to see growth return to 7 percent to 8 percent so long as banks are stuck with this problem.”
The benchmark VN Index (VNINDEX) of stocks fell 1.4 percent today. The dong was little changed at 20,858 a dollar. Shares of Asia Commercial Bank fell 1 percent to 19,500 dong....
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