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Decline in ODA poses challenge for Vietnam’s agricultural sector: Minister
The diminishing availability of ODA funding presents a significant challenge to the continued development of the Vietnamese agricultural sector, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan.According to Minister Le Minh Hoan, no new ODA projects have been signed in the agricultural sector ...
Translated by Anh Quan
Draft amendments to solve paradoxes in public investment activities
According to the SGGP Newspaper, in the first nine months of the year, the public disbursement rate reached 47.29 percent of the plan, lower than the same period in 2023 which achieved 51.38 percent. Currently, 31 ministries, central agencies, and 23 localities have failed to ...
Translated by Kim Khanh
Việt Nam must scale-up budget for climate change adaptation
Việt Nam increased its public expenditure for climate change in 2016-2020, however, more investment is needed to address climate risks and to mobilise more support from international and private sources, according to experts at a workshop held on Friday (11/3) to launch a report on ...
Over US$30 million for Vietnam to enhance climate resilience
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a non-refundable aid worth US$30.2 million to help Vietnam enhance climate resilience, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).The sum will be allocated to a project named “Strengthening the resilience of smallholder agriculture to climate ...
Solutions sought to accelerate disbursement of ODA
The ODA National Steering Committee held a meeting with donors in Hanoi on June 17 to seek solutions to speed up the disbursement of ODA capital and preferential loans, which has showed signs of slowing down in recent years.The delay in disbursement was attributable to ...
Irrigation projects funded by $2.7b in ODA
Twenty-two projects involved in irrigation, disaster prevention and clean water supplies had effectively used more than US$2.7 billion in official development assistant (ODA) over the past 25 years.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
ODA and the trap of preferential loans
Vietnam, which has been using ODA (official development assistance) capital for 25 years, has looked at the situation realistically and found the problems of ODA.Keep reading ...
Mai Lam
Ministry: Vietnam should carefully consider ODA loans
Vietnam has been advised to carefully consider whether to borrow official development assistance (ODA) loans in the future.ODA should be only a temporary foreign-currency mobilisation channel. The biggest benefit of foreign loans is having foreign currency resources to access technology, assets and advanced expertise.Keep reading ...
NA to hear explanation of huge ODA loans
The Ministry of Planning and Investment has been assigned to give the National Assembly (NA) an explanation of official development assistance (ODA) loans of VND600 trillion, VnEconomy quoted a Ministry of Finance official as saying.Keep reading ...
Saigon Times Reporter
