Vietnam has a lot of opportunities for franchising, with many businesses having the capability to become a franchisee, even a master franchisee, a recent conference has heard.

Vietnam is becoming increasingly more and more attractive in the eyes of foreign retail giants.

Effective policies applied by the Vietnamese Government have contributed to the country's positive good economic results so far this year, according to Era Dabla-Norris, Mission Chief to Vietnam and Division Chief in the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s Asia and Pacific Department.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Minh Chinh requested cabinet members use their vast experience to properly assess the situation and devise appropriate objectives, tasks, and solutions to successfully achieve the set goals by the end of the year.

Legislators are continuing with discussions on the performance of the 2022 socio-economic development plan, socio-economic development plan for 2023, 2022 State budget, and 2023 State budget estimate, public investment plan and State budget allocation plan on the eight working day of the 15th National Assembly.

The orientation of foreign capital flows pouring into Vietnam is heavily influenced by global factors.

Standard Chartered Bank has raised its Vietnam GDP growth forecast for 2022 to 7.5% from the previous 6.7% and for 2023 to 7.2% from 7.0% to reflect robust Q3 growth of 13.7% year-on-year. The last quarter 2022 growth is anticipated at 4.0%.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese GDP growth is projected to surge by 7% this year, thereby taking the lead among the group of five emerging markets in Southeast Asia (ASEAN-5), according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s World Economic Outlook Report for October.

VOV.VN - Renowned Swiss French-language newspaper Agefi, a publication based in Geneva, recently released an article titled “Le Vietnam et les nouveaux tigres asiatiques”, “Vietnam and the new Asian tigers” in English, by author Guy Mettan, which outlines Vietnam’s role as one of the leading emerging economies and its important role in Asia.

The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) has joined many international organisations in revising up Vietnam’s GDP growth this year thanks to the country’s strong performance since early this year and success in containing inflation.