After
nearly 30 years of applying Foreign Investment Law, Vietnam has officially and
widely recognized that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays an increasingly
important role in the development of Vietnam in a series of fields such as
capital, technology, export development, shifting economic structuring, state
budget… However, FDI in Vietnam has its drawbacks which affect the economy
negatively such as transfer pricing, tax evasion, poor cooperation between FDI
companies with domestic companies, weak management of Vietnam governmental
agencies and low efficiency of FDI.
Key words: Attracting Foreign
Direct Investment, FDI projects, governmental management level.