The first national forum on the development of digital economy and digital society took place in the northern province of Nam Dinh on September 14, discussing orientations and trends to help realise the country’s relevant targets for 2030 and beyond.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s economic resilience and competitive wages are both prominent factors in attracting investment from international firms, with 28% of respondents in the HSBC Global Connections’ survey naming these as the most important reasons behind their investment decisions in the country.

VOV.VN - Andreas Stoffers, country director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) in Vietnam, has predicted that the local economy will continue its growth track moving forward.

There are concrete signs that Vietnam’s exports are set to recover in the fourth quarter driven by a bottoming out of the US inventory cycle and by an acceleration in multinational firms’ movement of manufacturing to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has continued to strongly attract foreign direct investment (FDI) thanks to its advantages such as macroeconomic stability, low inflation, and high GDP growth amid global uncertainties, said Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, Tran Quoc Phuong.

Dwindling demands in the global market are posing challenges to Vietnam to meet its considerable export target for this year.

VOV.VN - Like many countries in the world, Vietnam is keeping a close watch on the progress made in discussions on expanding membership of the BRICS bloc of emerging economies.

VOV.VN - The country’s economic growth is forecast to be positive over the short term, according to predictions made the London-based audit service supplier PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Vietnam’s economic growth is likely to rebound in 2024 and 2025, according to Dorsati Madani, Senior Economist at the World Bank (WB).

Despite strong efforts and more positive signals recorded, Vietnam’s economic growth stood at only 3.72% in the first half of 2023, putting heavy pressure on the realisation of this year’s GDP growth target of 6.5%, said Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong.