The World Bank (WB) has urged Vietnam to take urgent action to adapt to climate change, in addition to its policy recommendations to improve public investment efficiency, strengthen accountability, and enhance the legal framework.

VOV.VN - After years of enjoying rapid development, Vietnam is at risk of falling into the middle-income trap and it is now seeking to break through the trap in an effort to become a high-income economy by 2045.

A workshop aimed at charting Vietnam's course toward a high-income future took place in Hanoi on November 20.

VOV.VN - To move from lower-middle-income to high-income status by 2045, Vietnam needs a new growth model to create a higher development trajectory and to overcome the “middle-income trap”.

Nearly 200 experts and scientists from universities and research institutes across Vietnam, Japan, and other regional countries gather at an international scientific workshop that opened in the central city of Da Nang on October 24 to strategise Vietnam's ascension to a high-income status by 2045.

VOV.VN - Vietnam should initiate Renovation 2.0 to include more robust and comprehensive changes, after recording significant achievements over the past 40 years of implementing Renovation 1.0 in order to propel itself towards sustainable development and a more prominent role in the global economy, suggested Kamal Malhotra, former UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has the opportunity to rise up and break through the middle-income trap in the near future, thereby enabling it to join the group of developed economies globally, according to a senior academic.

VOV.VN - Improving labour productivity is the shortest way for Vietnam to achieve rapid and sustainable development and escape the middle income trap, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at a national labour productivity forum in Hanoi on May 26.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai received Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister and Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), in Hanoi on April 16.

More than 100 Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian experts, managers, and diplomats joined an international conference on the three countries’ trade and investment cooperation given the digital economy, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City on September 20.