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Vietnam is poised to achieve upper middle-income status in 2023, with income per capita headed for US$ 11,000 in 2035, the Japan Centre for Economic Research (JCER) has predicted.

The JCER recently released its sixth Medium-Term Asian Economic Forecast, which provides a bird’s-eye view on the region’s economy over the next 15 years.

The report, titled “Asia in the coronavirus disaster: Which countries are emerging?”, addresses the impact of the spread of COVID-19 and looks at how Asian economies are faring compared with others around the world.

Based on this damage assessment, the report forecasts the economic growth (real gross domestic product growth rates), economic scale (normal GDP) and income per capita (nominal GDP per capita) of 15 countries and territories across Asia and the Pacific.

Workers make fillets of catfish at a factory in the southern city of Can Tho. Photo: Reuters

In the standard scenario, JCER assumes that the pandemic is a transient event, much like an earthquake, that will not affect economic structures over the medium term.

Under this assumption, only China, Vietnam, and Taiwan are on track to maintain positive year-on-year growth rates in 2020.

Vietnam is seen sustaining a growth rate of about 6 percent in 2035 thanks to strong exports. This would propel the Vietnamese economy past Taiwan’s in 2035 in terms of scale, and make it the second-largest economy in Southeast Asia after Indonesia.

The report also included a severe scenario that describes an outcome in which the coronavirus not only damages today’s economy but also affects urbanisation, trade openness, R&D spending, and a host of other factors, undermining countries’ potential growth rates over the medium term.

In this scenario, the growth of the US, Vietnam, Singapore, and others in 2035 would be significantly lower than those under the standard scenario, largely due to trade blockages.

Vietnam’s economic scale in the year is projected to still be smaller than that of Taiwan, JCER said./.

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