15-11-2012 08:07
The World Bank (WB) has agreed to provide $69.9 million to upgrade the urban area in the southern city of Can Tho, according to local authorities.
29-10-2012 13:22
Amid concerns about Vietnam’s worsening business environment, there is also optimism for a rebound, a new World Bank report suggests.
10-10-2012 10:16
Vietnamese-German University (VGU), the first of four planned new model state universities in Vietnam, recently disbursed a $180 million loan funded by the World Bank.
25-09-2012 16:00
Mobile technologies in Vietnam are getting a boost with the creation of a new research laboratory, dubbed mLab East Asia, in Ho Chi Minh City that is backed by the global technology giant Nokia and the World Bank.
04-09-2012 10:47
Vietnam’s first World Bank-funded hydropower project has just been licenced.
27-08-2012 09:47
For an economy whose growth largely depends on investment capital like Vietnam, inflation pressures lurk. World Bank country director Victoria Kwakwa tells VIR’s Linh Dung economic inefficiencies must be resolved for a long-term sustained growth.
27-07-2012 15:23
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the World Bank to continue providing preferential loans to Vietnam, pledging to take drastic measures to accelerate the disbursement of WB funding and increase the efficiency of the use of capital.
13-07-2012 16:00
Ministries, branches and localities should strictly implement works on nine World Bank-funded projects while pledging to promptly make disbursement for the projects, bringing them out of the slow-disbursement list by 2012.
28-06-2012 16:30
Vietnam is one of the ten best countries in terms using their IDA loans, the World Bank said at a conference it jointly held with the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment in Hanoi on Wednesday.
06-06-2012 08:53
The World Bank (WB) has pledged to provide Vietnam with a $4.2 billion loan in 2012-2016 period, according to a recent deals between WB and Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment.
24-05-2012 09:43
Vietnam is expected to gain an economic growth rate of 5.7 per cent and inflation rate to decline below 10 per cent in 2012, the World Bank (WB) says in its latest East Asia and Pacific Economic Update.
04-05-2012 13:42
The Vietnamese Government has effectively used the World Bank’s financial support, particularly in education and social security.
27-04-2012 08:19
announced Thursday it will open an office in in June, a quarter century after the emergence of a harsh military junta forced the end of aid programs.
30-03-2012 09:30
The United States lobbied hard for its candidate as he began a global campaign Thursday facing an unprecedented challenge from two developing nation candidates.
29-03-2012 09:58
The developing world should coalesce around a single candidate as it tries to put a non-American at the head of the for the first time, Colombian candidate told AP Wednesday.