Tóm tắt Luận văn Reforms of administrative procedures in investment in Thai Nguyen province

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1. 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Background and rationale of the study Administrative procedure reform in Thai Nguyen province has been implemented and achieved remarkable results in recent years. However, administrative procedure reform in the field of investment still faced certain limitations, such as the direction was not close enough at several units; the review of administrative procedures in investment was not implemented frequently; low-efficient application of e-government, low percentage of e-document; enterprises spend a lot of time and costs in implementing their investment, especially procedures related to land, leading to the low efficiency of investment attraction in Thai Nguyen province; the "one-door" and "one-stop-shop” policies still has limitations The 2018 Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) by Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reported that Thai Nguyen ranked 18th out of 63 cities and provinces, three ranks lower than 2017. Thai Nguyen was classified into group of good administrative quality with total score of 64.24 points (reduced 0.21 points compared to 2017) (VCCI, 2019). Hence, studying the current status of administrative procedure reform in investment, thereby proposes recommendations to improve administrative reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province is urgent and meet the scientific significance. Based on the above arguments, the research entitled “Reforms of Administrative procedures in investment in Thai Nguyen province” was selected as my dissertation in economic management. 2. Objectives 2.1. General objectives The research is conducted with the general objectives of examining current status of administrative reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province and proposes recommendations to boost the administrative reform, improve investment climate, enhance provincial competitiveness capacity, attract more investment and contribute to socio-economic development of Thai Nguyen province.
2. 2 2.2. Specific objectives - To systematize theoretical framework and clarify practical experiences on administrative procedure reform in investment; - To analyze and evaluate the results of administrative procedure reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province, analyze enterprises’ evaluation on administrative reform in investment, thereby identify factors affecting reforming administrative procedures in investment in Thai Nguyen province; - To analyze factors affecting investors’ satisfaction in implementing administrative procedures in investment in Thai Nguyen province; - To propose recommendations to reform administrative procedures in investment in Thai Nguyen province from now on to 2025. 3. Research questions (1) What is major content of the theory and practice of investment administrative reform? (2) What is the current situation of administrative procedure reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province? (3) What are the major factors affecting the administrative procedure reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province? (4) What are the necessary recommendations to reform administrative procedures in investment in Thai Nguyen province in coming time? 4. Subject and scope of the study 4.1. Subject of the study The dissertation focuses on studying theoretical basis and practical issues on administrative procedure reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province. 4.2. Scope of the dissertation - Scope: studying administrative procedure reform in investment taking place in Thai Nguyen province. - Time scope: + For secondary data: The data was collected during the period 2014-2018.
3. 3 + For primary data: data was collected in 2019 by conducting surveys respondents related to administrative reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province. - Content scope: The dissertation focused on studying theoretical background, practical experiences and the status of administrative procedure reform in Thai Nguyen province. Investment activities include both foreign and domestic investment implemented in Thai Nguyen, from carrying out investment procedures to doing business of enterprises. 5. Contributions and significance of the dissertation 5.1. Contributions The dissertation has systematized the theoretical background of administrative procedure reform in investment, namely: clarifying the definition, major contents, and factor affecting administrative procedure reform in investment. The dissertation has summarized and classified Vietnamese administrative regulations in investment into two criteria: projects and post-investment activities. The dissertation has summarized all procedures related to investment based on the settlement authority of provincial People’s Committee, and generalized into a multi-step investment procedure with related participants. Analyzing and clarifying the current status of administrative procedure reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province from different aspects, including: reviewing and simplifying administrative procedures; publicizing and announcing administrative procedures; receiving and processing information, recommendations on administrative procedures; inspecting and supervising administrative procedures. In addition, the dissertation has evaluated the satisfaction of enterprises and pointed out 6 factors affecting their satisfaction on implementing administrative procedures in investment in Thai Nguyen province. Finally, the dissertation has proposed recommendations and solutions to promote administrative procedures in investment, in order to attract more investment, improve development quality and to create jobs in Thai Nguyen province in the future.
4. 4 5.2. Significance of the dissertation The dissertation has clarified and enriched the theoretical background and practice on administrative procedure reform in investment. This is a useful reference for further studies on administrative procedure reform generally and administrative reform in investment particularly. The dissertation has examined current issues in Thai Nguyen province particularly and in Vietnam generally: reforming administrative procedures in investment. This is considered as a core issue in attracting investment capital in localities generally and in Thai Nguyen province particularly. The dissertation provides a detailed report on the current situation, the leading and directing activities of administrative procedure reform in investment in recent years. The report also proposes solutions to improve and promote the process of administrative reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province in the future, and to attract investment capital for the province. The dissertation results will clarify the point of views and policies of the Communist Party, the State as well as Thai Nguyen province in improving the investment climate and reforming administrative procedures in investment. The dissertation results also provide recommendations of investors to the leaders of Thai Nguyen province as well as departments and agencies related to the reform of administrative procedures in investment in Thai Nguyen province.
5. 5 6. Analytical framework Quality of Institutions & Investment facility cadres and regulations system on to implement Enterprises’ civil servants administrative administrative reform satisfaction on procedures in investment in investment implementing administrative procedure reform in ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE investment Propagation on REFORM IN INVESTMENT administrative - Facilities - Reviewing and simplifying procedure reform - Service in investment administrative procedures in investment; attitude - Implementation of administrative - Feedback procedure reform in investment; information - Receiving, handling feedback and - Time for recommendations on administrative reform administrative in investment; procedure - Inspecting and supervising the implementation - Procedures Leading role of local leaders of administrative procedure reform. - Cost SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE ADMINSTRATIVE PROCEDURE REFORM IN INVESTMENT Figure 01. Analytical framework on administrative procedure reform in investment 7. Dissertation’s structure In addition to the introduction, conclusion and references, the dissertation is divided into five chapters as follows: Chapter 1: Literature review Chapter 2: Theoretical background and practice on administrative procedure reform in investment Chapter 3: Research methodology Chapter 4: Current situation of administrative procedure reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province Chapter 5: Solutions and recommendations to improve administrative procedure reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province
6. 6 Chapter 1 LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1. International literature review In the world, previous studies mainly focused on public administrative reform, not many studies focused on administrative reform such as UNDP (2007), Gov (2012), UN DESA (1997), Wang (2010), OECD (2000), etc. A study by Morisset and Neso (2002) was conducted in 32 developing countries on the status of administrative procedures in investment. Their results show that there is a big difference among countries in the cost of implementing administrative procedures, of which the lowest is in South Africa, Zambia and Chile, while the highest cost is in Mozambique, Turkey and Romania. Land access and land clearance is the area that takes the most time for investors. The costs of implementing administrative procedures are positively related to the level of corruption. Jacobs and Coolidge (2006) provide an overview of administrative procedure reform in investment in the world. The study emphasizes that the costs of administrative procedures in investment in developing countries are much higher (often three times higher) than in developed countries. The administrative procedures that investors and businesses often face difficulties are approval and licensing of business registration, site development and environmental permits. 1.2. Domestic literature review Studies on administrative reform have been conducted since the early 1990s in the context of a joint study on administrative reform during the process of renovation in Vietnam. Major studies related to this topic include the researches of Nguyen Van Tham (2002), Painter (2003), OECD (2011), Nguyen Tran Sy (2007), Pham Thi Lan Huong (2012) , Vu Quynh (2017), World Bank (2011), Ta Thi Bich Ngoc (2016)... Outstanding researches are: Do Minh Tri and Bui Bang Doan (2014) evaluate the current situation and propose solutions to promote administrative reform in investment in Hung Yen province. Their results show that administrative reform has made a breakthrough in many fields. The operation of administrative agencies was smooth, the situation of
7. 7 working stagnation reduced sharply. These improvements create an increasingly professional administration, contributing to improve the competitiveness in attracting investments in Hung Yen province. However, in order to implement administrative reform more strongly, it is necessary to have more drastic direction from the provincial leaders, continue to maintain well the “one-stop” agencies and establish a "one-stop shop", strengthen the dialogue mechanism with enterprises Nguyen Xuan Bang and Truong Xuan Vy (2017) examine the status of administrative reform in the field of investment in Ninh Thuan province. The research reveals three main results on administrative procedure reform: Review and launch regulations to simplify administrative procedures; publicize administrative procedures in various forms and implement key solutions to renovating administrative reform. 1.3. Comments By analyzing previous studies on administrative procedure reform generally and administrative procedure reform particularly, there are key characteristics that the author can use for references, select and apply in this dissertation. However, the author considers that there are still unresolved issues related to administrative reform in investment, such as the number of published studies on administrative procedure reform in investment is still restricted, not yet systematically and comprehensively studied. In Thai Nguyen province, there has not been any scientific research on reform of administrative procedures in investment. Therefore, the dissertation focuses on the following main contents: - Clarifying the theoretical basis on administrative procedures reform in investment. - Clarifying the administrative procedures reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province, focusing on the following contents: reviewing and publicizing administrative procedures in investment, handling feedbacks and recommendations in the process of implementing administrative procedures in investment, inspecting and supervising the implementation of administrative procedures in investment ...
8. 8 - Evaluating enterprises' satisfaction toward the implementation of administrative procedures in investment in Thai Nguyen province. - Proposing solutions to accelerate reform of administrative procedures in Thai Nguyen province. Conclusion of Chapter 1 Chapter 2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND PRACTICE ON ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE REFORM IN INVESTMENT 2.1. Theoretical background of administrative procedure 2.1.1. Definitions 2.1.2. Classification 2.1.3. Characteristics 2.2. Administrative procedure reform in investment Administrative procedure reform in investment is the measures aiming at improving one or more stages of administrative procedures in investment in order to improve the capacity, effectiveness and efficiency to serve enterprises in the initial process of investment to develop production and business. 2.2.2. Characteristics of administrative procedure reform in investment Firstly, reform of administrative procedures in investment is associated with the administrative - legal competence of State administrative agencies in charge of investment. Secondly, reform of administrative procedures in investment is an activity that serves management activities in the field of investment. Thirdly, all subjects have equal rights in accessing and using the results of administrative procedure reform in investment. Fourthly, implementation of administrative procedure reform in investment is very diverse and complex. There are many agencies involved in the implementation. 2.2.3. Classification of administrative procedures in investment Group 1: Procedures related to approval of enterprise establishment.
9. 9 Group 2: Procedures related to land access, infrastructure development and access to utilities. Group 3: Administrative procedures in the process of investment, including tax declaration, tax payment and social security procedures (health insurance, social insurance ...), health inspection procedures, environment, fire protection, procedures for import and export, exchange rate... procedures related to adjustment of investment and business fields, adjustment of investment capital, splitting, capital transfer... 2.2.4. Contents of administrative procedure reform in investment - Reviewing and simplifying administrative procedures in investment - Announcing and publicizing administrative procedures in investment - Implementing administrative reform in investment - Receiving, handling feedback and recommendations on administrative procedures in investment - Inspecting and supervising the implementation of administrative procedure reform in investment 2.2.5. Factors affecting administrative procedure reform in investment - Quality of cadres and civil servants; - Propagation on administrative procedure reform in investment; - Leading role of local leaders; - Institutions & regulations system on administrative procedures in investment; - Investment facility to implement administrative reform in investment. 2.3. Practical basis on administrative procedure reform in investment 2.3.1. Experiences of Quang Ninh province 2.3.2. Experiences of Bac Ninh province 2.3.3. Experiences of Da Nang city 2.3.4. Experience lessons on administrative procedure reform in investment for Thai Nguyen province Conclusion of Chapter 2
10. 10 Chapter 3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1. Approach methods System, private-public and participatory approaches have been used in the dissertation 3.2. Data collection method The dissertation selected 3 site studies including Thai Nguyen city, Vo Nhai district and Pho Yen town to collect the data with the total of 545 samples. Besides, the dissertation also collected the opinion of experts as well as relevant secondary data. 3.3. Data processing 3.4. Data analysis The dissertation used the descriptive statistics, time-series data analysis and factor analysis to analyse the data. 3.5. Research indicators 3.5.1. Indicators for evaluating current situation of investment, reform administrative procedures in investment 3.5.2. Indicators for factors affecting administrative procedure reform in investment 3.5.3. Indicators for investors’ satisfaction of administrative procedure reform in investment Conclusion of Chapter 3 Chapter 4 CURRENT SITUATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE REFORM IN INVESTMENT IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE 4.1. Overview of Thai Nguyen province 4.1.1. Natural conditions characteristics 4.1.2. Socio-economic characteristics 4.1.3. Overview of enterprises operating in Thai Nguyen province 4.2. Current situation of administrative procedure reform in investment in Thai Nguyen province 4.2.1. Reviewing and simplifying administrative procedure 4.2.1.1. Results of reviewing and simplifying administrative procedures Over the period of 2014-2018, People's Committee of Thai Nguyen province issued decisions announcing the list of