Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung asked localities to clarify their objectives and the priority of public investment projects for 2021-25, to ensure focused investment.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called for faster disbursement of Official Development Assistance (ODA) capital and concessional loans following slow disbursement in the first half of 2017.
A senior official of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) says Viet Nam needs
to tighten its management of official development assistance (ODA) loans
and mobilise private sector capital to ease the burden of public debt.
Switzerland will grant 90 million Swiss franc (US$91.16 million) to
Viet Nam, focusing on economic development co-operation over the next
four years, Swiss State Secretary for Economic Affairs Marie-Gabrielle
Ineichen Fleisch said yesterday.
Early this year, some large private firms proposed that they are given
concessions to invest in airport services. The Government has accepted
this in principle. Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Hong Truong spoke to
Vietnam News Agency about these issues.
Japan will not suspend its Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Viet
Nam, confirmed a senior official from the Vietnamese Ministry of
Planning and Investment.
The transport sector has received the largest amount of official
development assistance (ODA) loans from Japan in Viet Nam, totaling
approximately 80 billion yen (nearly US$780 million) in 2013.