Results from the first quarter show Việt Nam’s economy maintains an impressive growth momentum, though the country’s 2018 development model will differ from past occurrences as the rest of the year will experience lower growth rates than the first three months’.

Total economic growth rate for the first quarter of 2017 is 5.1 per cent, the lowest out of the last three years, with the Vietnam Economic Performance Index (VEPI) clocked in at 5.8 per cent, according to the Vietnam Centre for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR)’s quarterly report and independent assessment of Việt Nam’s macroeconomic policies.