Vietnam

Key facts

The key facts are that the country has a population of 90m, a 94% literacy rate, and 58% are under the age of 25 years old. (more…)

Today we hear a lot about Emerging or are they now High Growth Markets. However, we have to go back to 2001 when Jim O’Neil, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management coined the acronym BRICS in a paper entitled “Building Better Global Economic BRICs”. It was clever and the term stuck with the media always referring to the BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China that would dominate the world economy in future years. (more…)