Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called on the World Bank to continue
cooperating with and assisting Vietnam by sharing experience and funding
projects to fulfill development targets.
PM Dung made the request at a reception in Hanoi on Dec. 2 for World
Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who is on a working visit
to Vietnam.
In the context of global crisis and recession, and
with the effective assistance of the international community, including
the WB, Vietnam has achieved positive results in socio-economic
development, controlling inflation and stabilising the macro-economy,
while ensuring social welfare and health care for the people, he said.
The
PM said Vietnam will continue to give priority to curbing inflation,
stabilising the macro-economy, ensuring social welfare, maintaining a
rational growth rate, and combining economic growth with social equality
and progress.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati said Vietnam is among a few
developing nations that have recorded important achievements in
controlling inflation, stabilising the macro-economy and ensuring social
welfare.
She said the Vietnamese Government’s socio-economic
targets set for 2012 including a single-digit inflation rate and GDP
growth equalling that of 2011 are important factors that will help the
country develop in a sustainable way.
However, the WB official
said, Vietnam, like other ASEAN countries, depends largely on exports,
so the nation will be more vulnerable to global economic changes.
She
said flexible financial and monetary policies and economic
restructuring are important factors for Vietnam to maintain stability of
the economy in 2012.
WB will assist Vietnam in policy consultation and funding to accomplish its development targets, she said.
The
same day, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received WB Managing
Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati, saying Vietnam wants to receive WB’s
effective assistance in financial resources, policy consultation and
management experience.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati pledged that WB will
continue providing information and sharing experience of other
countries worldwide in order to help Vietnam avoid difficulties these
countries are facing.
WB is willing to provide financial and
technical assistance to help Vietnam stabilise its macro-economy and
successfully implement its economic reform programmes./.