PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM, INVESTMENT ATTRACTION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE: AN INTERGRATED MODEL

Abstract

Public administration reform has been implemented across locals of Vietnam and PAR Index has been used as a tool to evaluate the administration reform results. Recently, Thai Nguyen province has achieved remarkable improvement in public administrative reform, including administrative formalities reform and modernization, application of one-stop mechanism and inter-agency one-stop mechanism, government apparatus reform, improved quality of civil servants and officers, and public finance reform. However, there is no study to date examining the impacts of public administration reform on investment attraction and socio-economic development. Our study employed desk research to review the literature and focus group to develop an integrated model to estimate the impacts of public administration reform on investment attraction and socio-economic development of Thai Nguyen province. Moreover, we developed a novel tool called PAR-SE Index to comprehensively evaluate such impacts. Future empirical works could adopt the integrated model and PAR-SE Index to estimate the impacts of public administration reform on investment attraction and socio-economic development in Thai Nguyen province and other locals in Vietnam.