Japan to continue ODA support to Vietnam
Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) cooperation in Vietnam had been successful, said President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Shinichi Kitaoka in a press conference in Hanoi on September 10 as part of his official visit to Vietnam.
At present, Japan supported 60% of ODA to Vietnam.
Developed countries such as the US and UK supported African countries since the 1950s, but Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in different countries in the Sahara Desert is only about US$1,000 per year.
Whereas in Southeast Asia, the figure in Vietnam is more than US$2,000, and the figure in some other countries in the area is nearly US$10,000.
“Fairly, countries receiving support from Japan have more developed economies,” he said.
Via the visit, Kitaoka found out that Japan should continue to support Vietnam in developing infrastructure.
“Transport in Vietnam develops quickly compared with four or five years ago when I first came to the country, and most of the residents can use automobiles in the next 10 years,” he said.
Thus the country could develop the system of metro.
JICA President Kitaoka expressed his hope that the two countries would promote their cooperation, limit harms caused by climate change, reduce the rich-and-poor gap and join hands in training work forces.
JICA would work with the Vietnamese Government to discuss the priority order for different projects, he said.
