PM approves foreign-funded projects
The Prime Minister has given the nod to four socio-economic development projects funded by foreign donors.
The Prime Minister has given the nod to four socio-economic development projects funded by foreign donors.
They include a 311,000 USD World Bank project to build a strategy to develop Vietnam’s capacity in gathering and compiling statistics.
The PM has given the green light to a technological support project for the upgrading of Mekong River Delta urban areas, which will be financed by the Republic of Korea through the World Bank.
The both projects are on a list of projects to be given non-refundable aid by the World Bank in the 2009 fiscal year.
Additionally, the PM has ratified the content of an agreement on a Danish project to increase the capacity of development research and policy analysis for the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) in the 2010-2011 period.
Also approved on the occasion was financial support by the Finland Government under an agreement signed on November 5, 2003 for a 7.2-million-USD project to upgrade medical equipment at the Viet-Tiep Friendship Hospital./.
They include a 311,000 USD World Bank project to build a strategy to develop Vietnam’s capacity in gathering and compiling statistics.
The PM has given the green light to a technological support project for the upgrading of Mekong River Delta urban areas, which will be financed by the Republic of Korea through the World Bank.
The both projects are on a list of projects to be given non-refundable aid by the World Bank in the 2009 fiscal year.
Additionally, the PM has ratified the content of an agreement on a Danish project to increase the capacity of development research and policy analysis for the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) in the 2010-2011 period.
Also approved on the occasion was financial support by the Finland Government under an agreement signed on November 5, 2003 for a 7.2-million-USD project to upgrade medical equipment at the Viet-Tiep Friendship Hospital./.
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