Vietnam ranked 48th among the 132 economies featured in the Global Innovation Index 2022 (GII 2022).

After seeing positive results in the first half of 2022, mergers and acquisition (M&A) activities in Vietnam are forecast to slow down in the second half as investors become more conservative about several macro trends impacting the country’s economy.

Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2022 can reach up to 8%, surpassing the target of 6.5%, according to Director General of the General Statistics Office (GSO) Nguyen Thi Huong.

Soaring inflation, rising production costs and fluctuation in exchange rates have caused great difficulties for production and import-export activities, and will linger on to the rest of the year.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged the US-based global growth investor Warburg Pincus to step up its effective coordination with Vietnamese agencies to increase long-term and sustainable investment in the country.

Global growth investor Warburg Pincus with headquarters in New York, the US, has decided to invest in a cross-border e-commerce project in the southern province of Binh Duong.

VOV.VN - The World Bank (WB) has raised its GDP growth forecast for Vietnam this year to 7.2% from 5.3% in April, while the overall rate of the East Asia and Pacific region is projected at 3.2%.

Economists have forecast Vietnam’s inflation will be kept at around 3.3-3.8% this year, similar to the National Assembly-set target of below 4%, adding that the pressure for 2023, however, remains huge and requiré appropriate response solutions.

Denmark’s Copenhagen Business School on September 22 hosted a workshop to discuss ways to build capacity for Vietnamese enterprises, help them climb up global value chains and boost Vietnam-Denmark cooperation in realising Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 23 chaired a conference on developing the science and technology market, aiming to identify challenges and put forward solutions for Vietnam to better manage and operate it.