The Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) in cooperation with the UN Industrial Development Organisation made public the Vietnam Industrial Investment Report 2011 and the Vietnam Investment Monitoring Platform (V-IMP) on June 27 in Hanoi.

With an investment of 975,000 USD from the United Nations Foundation, the V-IMP project aims to monitor 1944 enterprises in nine provinces across in Vietnam .

Of the number, 33 percent are small and medium sized enterprises, mainly operating in mechanics, textiles, rubber and household plastics.

Through monitoring the enterprises, V-IMP is expected to help the project’s management board have a clearer insight on investment restructuring, which plays an important role in promoting investment in Vietnam .
According to FIA Director Do Nhat Hoang, the V-IMP project’s debut will contribute to the better management of future FDI projects in Vietnam.-VNA