Ho Chi Minh City wants to promote innovation and multi-national cooperation, and calls for public investment in order to shift to a greener and more sustainable economy, a local official has said.

The domestic logistics sector has made big strides over the past time, significantly contributing to national economic growth and generating jobs for labourers.

Up to 77.41% of the adults in Vietnam have payment accounts at present, an increase from 31% during the 2015 - 2017 period, an official of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) cited a World Bank report as saying.

VOV.VN - For the first time Vietnam has sold 10.3 million forestry carbon credits (10.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide CO₂) this year, bringing in US$51.5 million, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Andrea Coppola, World Bank Lead Economist for Vietnam, has described Vietnam in 2023 as resilient, saying that amid the global economic slowdown, the Southeast Asian nation was still able to sustain a rate of growth that many other countries in the rest of the world can only dream about.

World Bank (WB) experts have suggested several things that Vietnam should do to attract foreign investment in the stock market at the recent Inter-Agency Seminar on Unlocking the Potential of Vietnam’s Capital Markets.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment’s circular on a set of criteria for green growth statistics will come into effect on December 15.

VOV.VN - The World Bank considers Vietnam an important partner and it will continue to accompany and support Vietnam in meeting its development goals, said President Ajay Banga.

VOV.VN - Vietnam expects to get the World Bank’s loans with low interest rates for key, large-scale infrastructure projects, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh made a proposal at a reception in Hanoi on November 14 for Manuela Ferro, vice president for East Asia and Pacific at the World Bank.

VOV.VN - The World Bank will work closely alongside Vietnam in the new Country Partnership Framework for the 2023-2027 period to promote rapid growth and sustainable and comprehensive development in the country, said Anna Bjerde, the World Bank’s Managing Director for Operations.