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Ho Chi Minh City is the economic centre of Vietnam. With only 8 % of the national population, HCMC accounts for more than 20 % of key aspects of the economy and attracts about 50 % of all available foreign direct investments (FDI) capital (Coulthart et al. 2006). Having undergone rapid development, it is faced, like many other cities in South East Asia, with significant and poorly controlled rural-urban migration and a widening between rich and poor.
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Bächtold, P. (2013). Urban Planning Strategy for Ho Chi Minh City. In: The Space-Economic Transformation of the City. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5252-8_8
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