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Is it time to abolish conditional business lines in Vietnam?

In an interview with Thoi Bao Tai Chinh last week, Cung Dinh Nguyen, the former Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management Research, took aim at conditional business lines and the corresponding business conditions. He says that to grow the private sector these need to be limited or even removed citing inconsistencies, overlapping legislation, and a lack of specific details–the Law on Investment currently contains 227 conditional business lines.