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Pumping capital should match administrative reform (12/10)

12/10/2012 - 13 Lượt xem

Finance and banking expert Le Van Hinh said "falling interest rates and increased credit should ensure harmony between the benefits of the micro and macro economy. Enterprises should also be more prudent with their capital".
Over the past decade, Vietnam's economy has recorded a quite fast growth rate with an average GDP growth of seven percent from 2001 to 2010. However, economic experts and domestic and foreign financial institutions pointed out that one weakness of Vietnam economy is capital imbalance.
Statistics showed that Vietnam economic growth was high while accumulated funds inside the country are low. Domestic savings of Vietnam's economy is often from 30-32 percent of GDP while total social investment is from 40-45 percent of GDP which means the "savings-investment" balance of Vietnam is minus 15 percent of GDP and the economy is usually in the state of capital shortage.
Many experts while monitoring Vietnamese enterprises over a long period said in the context of numerous difficulties facing the economy, Vietnamese enterprises rarely reviewed their production process and took optimal measures to cut costs. In contrast, when businesses made profits, many of them bought luxury commodities such as airplanes or expensive cars to make boast of their material things. This is obviously imprudent and inefficient behaviors with their own capital. It not only made a negative impact on financial situations of enterprises themselves but also on their capital making capabilities in the long term and also on monetary market, making high demand for capital and increasing interest rates.
At the moment, lowering interest rates and loosening lending conditions to save enterprises should go along with a basic and sustainable solution which requires enterprises to make administration reforms and restructure their organizations and areas of production and business. Accordingly, production factors including capital, labor and natural resources should be combined in harmony to create new values for the society. This will not only bring benefits to enterprises but to the whole economy, creating unanimity in enterprises' innovation activities and transformation of economic growth model in the coming years.
If lowering interest rates too fast and lower than the balanced level of the market would probably maintain the existence of enterprises but they might also follow the old path, which is using their capital inefficiently. Therefore, lowering interest rates, loosening lending conditions and increase credits to the economy should match the above requirements for enterprises and restructuring for the commercial banking system.
In addition, falling interest rates and increased credit too easily may save enterprises out of difficulties in the short term but in the medium term may lead to inflation and macro-economic instability. Therefore, falling interest rates to pump capital for enterprises needs to ensure harmony between micro and macro economic criteria and enterprises need to change their thoughts and be more prudent with social capital resources to pursue sustainable economic growth./.

Source: VEN.