ADDITIONAL TRANSLATION MATERIAL

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I. (1) Until recently, economists used to marvel at the speed with which the
Vietnamese were trading in their bicycles for motorcycles. But that trend now
seems out-of-date. (2)Observers are now mesmerised by Vietnam's equally rapid
embrace of the motor car. (3)In the year to August, the local car industry's output
grew by 43%. (4)Private cars, their horns blaring in the hope of parting the sea of
motorcycles, are suddenly a common sight on the streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi
Minh City.

II. (5)Like Vietnam's new car owners, the country's economy is accelerating, even
as the rest of South-East Asia slows. (6)In the first three-quarters of the year, it
grew at an annual rate of 8.1%—faster than its five-year average of 7.2%.
(7)Better yet, Vietnam's poverty rate is falling almost as fast as its economy
grows. (8)The proportion of the population that the government deems poor fell
from 58% in 1993 to 20% last year. (9)If the reduction continues at the current
rate, says Martin Rama, the World Bank's chief economist in Vietnam, abject
poverty will soon be limited to ethnic minorities in remote areas.

III. (10)This rapid growth, explains Jonathan Pincus of the United Nations
Development Programme, derives chiefly from the steady shift of millions of
inefficient subsistence farmers into marginally more productive pursuits. (11)Many
have begun growing coffee or farming prawns, while others now work in textile
plants or shoe factories. (12)Tens of thousands of family firms have also sprung up
since 2001, when the government eased restrictions on small businesses.
(13)Since some 74% of Vietnam's 84m inhabitants still live in the countryside, and
most of those remain rice farmers, there is plenty more scope for growth.

Source: www.economist.com

Nguyen Ninh Bac CFL VNU ninhbac83@yahoo.com