The Vietnam Online Business Forum (VOBF) 2022 was held by the Vietnam E-Commerce Association (VECOM) in Ho Chi Minh City on May 10, focusing discussions on e-commerce’s role in promoting post-pandemic economic development.

Vietnam has made remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the 2010 – 2020 period, with the rate of poverty declining to only 5% from 16.8%, according to the World Bank (WB).

What Vietnam has achieved in the last three decades, and what it is on course to achieve in the future, makes the country a good candidate for low- and middle-income countries in Africa to partner with for shared prosperity, according to a recent article by theafricareport.com.

VOV.VN - Asia Plus Securities (ASPS), a brokerage firm based in Thailand, has recommended increasing investment in the Vietnamese market, citing the country's high growth prospects based on its ample local workforce, low minimum wage, and steadily rising per capita income.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s merchandise trade balance recorded a surplus of US$1.4 billion in March, while FDI commitments and disbursement remained resilient amid global uncertainties over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the April edition of the World Bank's monthly Vietnam March Monitoring.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese economy showed signs of steady recovery in the first three months of the year, securing estimated growth of 5% and controlling the consumer price index at 1.92%.

VOV.VN - The World Bank (WB), in its East Asia and Pacific Economic Update on April 5, has lowered Vietnam’s GDP growth rate for this year to 5.3% from its 5.5% projection in January.

VOV.VN - The Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has moved to lower Vietnam’s GDP growth rate for the year from the previously-projected 6.5% to 6.2% amid fears of rising oil prices globally.

VOV.VN - Vietnam strongly supports efforts made by the International Organization of Francophonie (OIF) to promote economic cooperation in the Francophone world in an increasingly efficient manner and towards new heights.

Vietnam is poised to emerge strongly from the COVID-19 pandemic and place itself firmly on the radar of foreign investors, buoyed by rapid industrialisation and a fast-growing middle-class, experts told AsianInvestor which focuses on the region’s investment industry.