Published Articles & OP-EDS
This section brings together selected articles and analyses authored by Dr. Sven David and published in leading Vietnamese and international media.
The publications address key developments shaping Vietnam’s economic transformation, investment environment, private-sector development and institutional reform, combining strategic analysis with a practical perspective on their implications for businesses and investors.
Selected contributions published by Đầu tư are also available in a dedicated collection.
When the Tailwind Fades
A stronger order book can reflect better execution, a favourable market or a temporary advantage created by trade policy. The investment implications depend on which source is doing the work.
Vietnam’s Growth Ambition. Is Your Company Ready?
Business leaders are connecting Vietnam’s growth ambitions with stronger productivity, governance and technological capabilities. For owners and CEOs, the investment challenge is to turn those priorities into demonstrable enterprise performance
AI / Digitalisation
Access to AI is expanding, but adoption alone does not establish better enterprise performance. For owners and CEOs, the investment decision starts with the workflows that materially affect earnings, cash, capacity, service or risk.
Who Gets the Capital
Why company growth and shareholder liquidity require different decisions
A share sale can make an owner liquid while leaving the company’s growth plan underfunded. As Vietnam develops its capital market, owners and management teams need to distinguish the value of a transaction from the capital available to the business.
Bankability Is a Management Capability.
Why strategic relevance, information integrity and execution readiness still do not make a project investable.
48 JETP-aligned projects. More than USD 11 billion in identified financing needs. Only three with announced JETP-related financing by late September 2026.
The numbers point to a management distinction that matters well beyond energy: strategic relevance is not the same as investment readiness.
Your Company Does Not Have a Financing Problem. It Has a Financeability Problem.
When access to capital tightens, management often starts with the lender. This Executive Insight starts with the company. It examines how strategy, economics, cash generation, transparency, governance and execution capability can shape the confidence of banks and investors long before a financing request is submitted - while distinguishing those internal factors from external funding constraints.
Vietnam’s Window Is Open. It Will Not Stay Open Forever.
Vietnam’s strategic window is real, but opportunity alone does not create lasting advantage. The next challenge is to build Vietnamese enterprises with the scale, governance, capital, technology and international learning capability required to capture more value and compete beyond the domestic market.
Gia tăng sức hút với nhà đầu tư dài hạn
This Vietnamese print publication in Đầu tư presents the Vietnamese-language version of Dr. Sven David’s Vietnam Investment Review article on Resolution No. 10-NQ/TW and Vietnam’s next phase of foreign investment attraction.
Motivations of major resolution will entice long-term foreign investors
The article examines Vietnam’s Resolution No. 10-NQ/TW and the country’s next phase of foreign investment attraction. The core question is no longer simply how Vietnam can attract more capital, but how foreign investment can help build stronger domestic capabilities, deepen supplier linkages, support technology transfer, and create more durable operating advantages for long-term investors.
Từ điểm nghẽn toàn cầu đến lợi thế chiến lược: Cơ hội mới cho Việt Nam
This Vietnamese-language publication in Đầu tư discusses how global supply chain disruptions can become a strategic opportunity for Vietnam if reliability, coordination, and operational resilience are strengthened.
Vietnam’s International Financial Centre: From Concept to Institution
Vietnam has officially launched its International Financial Centre (IFC), signaling a deliberate transition from ambitious concept to a functioning institution. Rather than a sudden breakthrough, the move reflects Vietnam’s trademark "gradualist approach," focusing on institutional credibility and long-term stability over mere symbolism.
Trung tâm Tài chính quốc tế (IFC): Từ tham vọng đến thể chế
This Vietnamese-language publication in Đầu tư examines Vietnam’s International Financial Centre as a transition from policy ambition towards institutional design, operational credibility, and long-term market trust.
Dr. Sven David’s Vietnamese-language publications in Đầu tư, one of Vietnam’s most important business and investment publications under Báo Tài chính – Đầu tư / Ministry of Finance.