Download or read book Vietnam. An Analysis on the Status of Democracy and Political Development in a One-Party State written by Lucas Rivers and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: South Asia, , language: English, abstract: Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Over the past 30 years, Vietnam has transformed itself from one of the world’s poorest nations to a lower-middle income country ripe with investment opportunities. Yet despite these economic achievements, this one-party state still encounters significant obstacles to sustained and democratic political development in each of the USAID’s five key elements of democracy, human rights and governance: consensus, inclusion, competition and political accountability, rule of law and human rights, and government responsiveness and effectiveness.