No, Lady. The one and only Economy of any Country
is not even its Industrial base, its a Renewable Resource
is what real matters. Try and comprehend Thomas Jefferson.
Vietnam is on the Road to complete Ruin. The fact is
it is close to Bangladesh as far as its economy goes. Not
now, but in few years its over for Vietnam.

"EL CHINO" wrote in message news:2b8b88c2.0308111632.3e7078d3@posting.google.c om...
> In general Growth is measured bycomparing the Total GDPppp of a
> Country at a specified time to its GDP ppp at any time posterior to
> that.
>
> Since Economy grew slowly, the longer the time interval between the
> two dates the better. El Chino had shown in his post " Inaccuracy in
> CIA Economical Data" that the short time intervals of 1 to 3 years
> yielded inconsistent data. Since CIA diownloadable data did not go
> earlier than 2000, comparison of GNP ppp for period greater than 3
> years were impossible using CIA data base.
>
> There are 4 principal sources of GDPppp , to El Chino's knowledge,
> that were 1)trustworthy and 2) cover longer periods than 3 years,3)
> included Vietnam and other Asean Countries and 4) in spreadsheet
> forms. Other data bases might exist in the universe of data but El
> Chino is satisfied with the Data he used. Criticism based on better
> data sources is gratefully acknowledged.
>
> The First Data Base Was the United Nation Human Development index.
> Annual data bases were downloadable to 1992. However data for
> 1992-1995 lacked the crucial GDPppp data making the calculation of
> growth rate based on time interval longer than 4 years not possible.
>
> Another source was Nationmaster.com put out by.Luke Melcalfe , Sydney
> Australia , a consulting firm.
>
> Another source of data was Earthtrends Of the World Resource Institute
> which was sponsored by World Bank and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
> of The Netherlands.
>
> For all of these data bases , Data for Vietnam went back to 1992 at
> the latest which is sufficient for determination of growth. (Note:
> Not only for Vietnam, but data for many countries were not complete
> because data of yesteryear were not deemed reliable and not included).
> .
> Using these sources, the Growth rate of 12 countries in Asia are given
> in Table Below where GDP was in US Dollar Purchasing power parity as
> defined by United Nation Human Development Agency. Data from
> Nationmaster.com plotted. Data from HDI and World Resource Institute
> yielded identical ranking of the 12 countries but slightly lower
> growth rate