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INTRODUCTION
1. Background and rationale of the study
Administrative procedure reform in Thai Nguyen province has
been implemented and achieved remarkable results in recent years.
However, administrative procedure reform in the field of investment
still faced certain limitations, such as the direction was not close
enough at several units; the review of administrative procedures in
investment was not implemented frequently; low-efficient application
of e-government, low percentage of e-document; enterprises spend a
lot of time and costs in implementing their investment, especially
procedures related to land, leading to the low efficiency of
investment attraction in Thai Nguyen province; the "one-door" and
"one-stop-shop” policies still has limitations…
The 2018 Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) by Vietnam
Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID) reported that Thai Nguyen
ranked 18th out of 63 cities and provinces, three ranks lower than
2017. Thai Nguyen was classified into group of good administrative
quality with total score of 64.24 points (reduced 0.21 points
compared to 2017) (VCCI, 2019).
Hence, studying the current status of administrative procedure
reform in investment, thereby proposes recommendations to improve
administrative reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province is
urgent and meet the scientific significance. Based on the above
arguments, the research entitled “Reforms of Administrative
procedures in investment in Thai Nguyen province” was selected as
my dissertation in economic management.
2. Objectives
2.1. General objectives
The research is conducted with the general objectives of
examining current status of administrative reform in investment in
Thai Nguyen province and proposes recommendations to boost the
administrative reform, improve investment climate, enhance
provincial competitiveness capacity, attract more investment and
contribute to socio-economic development of Thai Nguyen province.
