Overcapacity contributed to low inflation rate last year

Thursday, Jan 05, 2023

Economist Nguyen Minh Phong forecasted that interest rates in Viet Nam would not fall until the second half of 2023. He also said keeping interest rates high might be a double-edged sword for the economy.

October’s CPI reaches three-year high

Wednesday, Oct 30, 2019

Viet Nam’s consumer price index (CPI) in October increased by 0.59 per cent against September – the highest rate in the last three years.

VN's headline inflation rises in first quarter

Thursday, Apr 14, 2016

Viet Nam''s headline inflation rate increased by 1.69 per cent in the first quarter of this year, putting pressure on the new Government to curb the rate going forward, according to a quarterly report on macroeconomic growth.

Report outlines forecasts for 2015 economic performance

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Inflation this year will fluctuate at about 3 per cent due to adjustments in public services, taxes and fees, the Viet Nam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) has forecast.

Viet Nam rises to 68th place in competitiveness

Thursday, Sep 04, 2014

Viet Nam has jumped up two ranks to 68th place among 144 economies worldwide, according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2014-15 which the World Economic Forum (WEF) recently released.

Manufacturing conditions improve

Friday, Jan 03, 2014

Business conditions in the Vietnamese manufacturing sector improved in December as output and employment increased at sharper rates thanks to the growing renewed orders, according to HSBC''s report released yesterday.