Sound economic policies have enabled Vietnam to increase its exports to $213 billion in 2017. Pakistan can adopt its economic development strategy. (Sajid Imtiaz)

1. should Pakistan learn from
Vietnam?
By focusing on export-
based infrastructure,
Vietnam turned the East
Asian Crisis of 1990s into
an economic miracle.
Sound economic policies
enabled Vietnam to
increase its exports from
single digit in 1995 to
$213 billion in 2017.
Focus on exports
promotion helped
Vietnam to make
spectacular decrease in
poverty as Vietnamese
population living below
the poverty line fell from
58% in 1993 to 9.8% in
2018.