VOV.VN - Vietnam’s push to enhance competitiveness, reduce its carbon footprint, and improve lives and livelihoods has been given a boost with the approval of an AUD5 million granted by the Australian government.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s economic growth could slow as its population ages, squeezing public finance and stressing the service delivery system, unless timely reforms are set in motion, a new World Bank report finds.

VOV.VN - The World Bank and the Institute for Social Development Studies have signed an agreement for a US$2.75 million grant provided by the Japan Social Development Fund for the “Strengthening preparedness and response to COVID-19 at the grassroots level in Vietnam” Project.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s GDP is expected to expand by about 4.8% in 2021, or 2% lower than the projection made by the World Bank Group in December 2020, the WB says in its latest edition Taking Stock released on August 24.

VOV.VN - The World Bank (WB), acting on behalf of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), has signed a US$11.3 million grant with the State Bank of Vietnam to support the development of a commercial financing market for industrial energy efficient investments, with the total financing support from the GCF also including a US$75 million guarantee.

VOV.VN - The World Bank and the State Bank of Vietnam on July 30 signed a US$6.2 million grant agreement to strengthen Vietnam’s coronavirus surveillance and testing capacities, research capacity for COVID-19 vaccines and test kits.

VOV.VN - Economies in the East Asia and Pacific region carried out 33 business-climate-enhancing reforms during the past year, and while many economies in the region make doing business easy for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs by global standards, the overall pace of reforms slowed, the World Bank Group’s latest Doing Business 2020 study says.

VOV.VN - On October 4, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the World Bank, and the People’s Committee of Da Nang City, Vietnam announced a joint collaboration program to strengthen the City’s institutions and capacity to mobilize and utilize financial resources in a more effective, efficient, accountable, and sustainable manner.

VOV.VN - On October 1, the World Bank (WB) and the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)  signed a financing agreement for a grant worth US$2.2 million provided by the Swiss Government to implement the project titled “Vietnam: Strengthening Banking Sector Soundness and Development”.

VOV.VN - The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on June 11 approved a US$194.36 million credit to help four secondary cities in Vietnam build critically-needed municipal infrastructure and strengthen urban planning.