VGP – Viet Nam’s GDP growth witnessed a year-on-year increase of 4.5 percent in first quarter of 2021, a strong performance, although recovery was uneven across sectors, according to the World Bank’s Viet Nam Macro Monitoring Report released on April 16, 2021.
VGP – The COVID-19 pandemic has not only widened deep-rooted gender inequality but also created new gender disparities in Viet Nam, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO).
VGP – Viet Nam’s economic freedom score is 61.7, making its economy the 90th freest out of 178 economies in the 2021 Index, breaking into the moderately free category this year for the first time, according to the Heritage Foundation.
VGP – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung has expressed his hope that the UK will share its experience in COVID-19 vaccination strategy with Viet Nam, and create more favorable conditions for the country in the next rounds of vaccine supply.
VGP - Viet Nam ranks fifth in the Happy Planet Index results, and second in the Asia Pacific region, according to the UK-based New Economics Foundation.
VGP - Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has written an article highlighting the potential of growing cooperation in the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), on the occasion of its 25th founding anniversary on March 1.
VGP – The General Statistics Office (GSO) started 2021 economic census nationwide from March 1 in order to have the insight into the current status of the economy.