Experience in applying market solutions for providing some types of public services

Abstract

While most private goods and services have been marketed since
1990, the first attempts to market some public services, such as education, culture,
health care, sports, which were only conducted after the VII Congress of the
Communist Party of Vietnam (1991) under the name of “socialization”. However,
for a long time, the majority of public service delivery activities were still carried out
by public non-profit units, placing a great burden on the national budget and were
not really effective. By synthesizing the experiences of some countries, the article
will analyze the appropriate market solutions and apply them to two typical types
of public services in Vietnam, thereby consider the feasibility, comment and make
recommendations on this matter.