December 23, 2011
The World Bank announced Tuesday it will allocate US$4.2 billion for a five-year strategy to support reforms and investments key to Vietnam’s transition to a middle-income country. Under the Vietnam Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for the 2012-2016 period, the funding will be given by the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessional arm. [...]
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October 16, 2011
Tobacco industry poised to deploy ‘dirty tricks’ to increase business in third-world nations despite evidence aplenty of the substance’s harmful effects Natalka Proszak uses a cigarette box to block the wind as she lights a cigarette in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Now that smoking has declined in high-income nations, experts warn that the tobacco industry [...]
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May 7, 2011
Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the opening ceremony of the 44th annual meeting of ADB in Hanoi May 5, 2011. Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda said developing Asia is behind Latin America in boosting consumption and urged policy makers to take steps to reduce precautionary household savings. “The region needs [...]
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May 4, 2011
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai speaks at the Vietnam Business Summit during Asia Development Bank's 44th annual meeting in Hanoi on May 3 Vietnam will continue to improve its business environment and fully mobilize domestic and foreign resources as it aims to become an industrialized nation in 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai [...]
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January 3, 2010
A view of Le Loi Street in downtown HCMCStanding by her pushcart hawking cassava cakes on Ho Chi Minh Cityâs Bui Thi Xuan Street, Anh laughs when she hears she is in the World Bankâs âmiddle incomeâ bracket.She earns more than VND30 million (US$1,630) a year against Vietnamâs 2008 per capita income of about $1,000, [...]
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December 24, 2009
A farmer poses in her rice paddy field in Vietnam’s northern Bac Ninh province, outside Hanoi The World Bank said it had approved its biggest ever loan to Vietnam as it virtually endorsed the once war-ravaged Southeast Asian nation’s impending elevation to middle income status. The US$500 million loan was the first to the fast-growing [...]
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December 24, 2009
WB approves US$500 million to support Vietnam’s public investment reforms; Bank officers forge documents to steal money; Opening doors for PPP investment model; Increasing female members in political system Noi Bai-Lao Cai expressway project gets underway The Phu Tho provincial People’s Committee in coordination with the Ministry of Transport organised a groundbreaking ceremony on December [...]
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December 5, 2009
International donors on Dec. 4 pledged a record aid of more than US$8 billion to Vietnam for the next year, a rise of more than $3 billion compared to last year. Within the package, $1.4 billion will be in the form of grants while the rest, $6.6 billion, will be in concessional loans, said Planning [...]
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December 4, 2009
Foreign donors guaranteed Vietnam official development assistance of more than US$8 billion at a meeting Friday, a sharp increase from the figure pledged a year ago. The annual pledge was announced at the Consultative Group meeting on Vietnam, which included Vietnamâs top donors such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, Japan and EU, [...]
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September 11, 2009
Road accidents, pregnancy and childbirth complications, suicide, violence, the AIDS virus and tuberculosis are the biggest killers of young people across the world, according to a study published Friday. Researchers supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) said their study â“ the first to look at global death rates in those aged 10 to 24 [...]
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