Vietnam as a whole has experienced a resurgence of foreign direct investment inflows this year, increasing 66.5 percent during the first ten months of 2013, with a forecast of a 54.5 percent increase from 2013 to 2014. Hanoi has also benefitted from this rise, with FDI inflows growing nearly 300 percent during the first three quarters of 2013 compared to the prior year, reaching US$999.6 million.