The Government should have more long-term policies and packages supporting and aiding businesses to recover from the impacts of COVID-19, Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has said.

Ngo Dang Khoa, country director of foreign exchange and capital markets at HSBC Vietnam, has suggested three challenges that the Vietnamese economy would face in the second half of this year.

VOV.VN - The Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) has revised two scenarios for the Vietnamese economy by the end of the year, with the GDP rate forecast to expand by 5.9% and 6.2%, respectively.

VOV.VN - United Overseas Bank (UOB) of Singapore has maintained its forecast that the Vietnamese economy will expand by 6.7% over the course of the year 2021.

Reports on the performance of the 14th National Assembly (NA), the State President, and the Government in the 2016-2021 tenure were respectively delivered by NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong, and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the legislature’s 11th session that opened on March 24.

VOV.VN - The local economy has remained resilient despite the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), recording growth of 2.9% in 2020 to mark one of the highest growth rates worldwide, according to latest annual assessment released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese economy continued its recovery during the opening two months of the year, with signs of robust growth in several sectors coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic gradually being brought under control, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese Embassy in Argentina held a meeting on March 5 alongside members of the local media in order to brief them on the current political situation in Vietnam along with the nation’s ongoing socio-economic development process, as well as culture and tourism potential.

The US independent management consultancy Asia Perspective has published a report on the Vietnamese economy, which highlighted that in the fourth quarter of 2020, Vietnam posted rapid growth thanks to the recovery of manufacturing.

VOV.VN - Alongside containing the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government has been advised to stabilise the macroeconomy, improve the local business climate, and ensure that public investment is strictly supervised and implemented in an effective manner in order to enhance the resilience of the economy, according to insiders.