Provincial Competitiveness Index Project (PCI)

Over the years, the PCI has sought to deliver critical information and analyses to several groups of stakeholders.

First, the PCI provides valuable insights to provincial leaders about their economic governance performance and how to improve the business environment to foster domestic and foreign investment, jobs, and economic development.

The PCI report demonstrates how some provinces have taken advantage of these lessons, reforming local regulations, searching for best practices, and ultimately rising up in the PCI rankings.

Second, for central government leaders, the PCI offers a valuable comparison of provincial performance in different parts of the country and helps identify areas where the central government may wish to strengthen supervisory functions and improve decentralization, infrastructure and regional integration.

Third, the PCI also grants investors and businesses considering investment or expansion of existing investments in Vietnam with useful data regarding the business climate in each province.

Finally, for researchers and journalists, the PCI has sought to deliver a comprehensive database of governance indicators to track over time and motivate further research