Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) to work with other ministries, agencies and localities to evaluate the implementation of key resolutions on socio-economic development and market assistance, according to the Vietnam Government Portal.

Specifically, the Government will review Resolution 01/NQ-CP on “Major solutions guiding and directing the realisation of the plan for socio-economic development and state budget estimate in 2013” and Resolution 02/NQ-CP on “Solutions to remove difficulties against production and business, support the market and deal with non-performing loans” dated January 7, 2013.

The Prime Minister also asked his inferiors to craft a resolution on “Major solutions guiding and directing the realisation of the plan for socio-economic development and state budget estimate in 2014.”

The MPI is put in charge of reporting the implementation before December 10, 2013 in order to prepare for an upcoming conference between the Government and localities to realise the National Assembly’s Resolution on socio-economic development plan and State budget estimate for 2014.

Earlier, the National Assembly approved main growth rates, including a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 5.8 percent, an export turnover growth of 10 percent, a trade deficit of 6 percent of total export turnover, a Consumer Price Index (CPI) growth of 7 percent, and a total social development investment that makes up 30 percent of GDP.

On social development, the Resolution has set to reduce poor households by 1.7 -2 percent, create jobs for 1.6 million laborers, reduce urban unemployment rate to under 4 percent, increase the percentage of trained workers to 52 percent, and reduce the rate of children under five with malnutrition to 15.5 percent.-VNA