This paper is a short version of a larger study entitled Options and Recommendations for a Comprehensive Development Strategy for the Services Sector in Viet Nam up to 2020,1 conducted in 2004 in the framework of the project “Capacity Strengthening to Manage and Promote Trade in Services in Viet Nam in the Context of Integration” (or “Trade in Services” Project VIE/02/009), which is currently being funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and implemented by the Department of Trade and Services of the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).