The government’s report to the National Assembly on the 2019 public debt and 2020 budget shows that it plans to mobilize VND460 trillion worth of capital, mostly to offset the deficit and repay principal. SEE MORE At the government's September working session, the Prime Minister said the socio-economic performance in the first nine months was better than predicted and better than the same period last year. SEE MORE The public-debt-to-GDP ratio was forecast to dip down to 54.3% by 2020; 53.3% by 2021 and only 52.7% by 2020, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) reported. SEE MORE Vietnam’s public debt will fall to 56.1% of GDP by the end of 2019 from 58.4% last year, according to the Government’s latest report. SEE MORE The government has set targets for public debts, government debts and foreign debts to ensure they are within the limit and lower than the national financial plan in the 2016 – 2020 period. SEE MORE