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A description of the principal characteristics of poverty in contemporary Vietnam The past half century has been a difficult one for the people of Vietnam. The Vietnamese were granted their independence in 1954 but the following years were to be spent adjusting to life away from colonial rule and later to be plagued by the highly destructive and equally controversial war against American troops. So deep was the trauma of the war that Vietnam was not assisted by the Western world to recover from the damage caused by the most intensive aerial bombing in history. It was not until the 1990s; when the Vietnamese government made a move from strict Communism towards a free market economy, that ties were reclaimed with the outside world and the United States trade embargo was lifted. In recent years the development of oil and gas fields have boosted the economy, along with a booming rice...

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