The year 2018 ends with several records, which are the highlights in the national economic panorama, laying the firm foundation for the country to strive to successfully implement the Resolution of the 12th National Party Congress and Resolution 142/2016/QH13 on the five-year socio-economic development plan for 2016-2020. SEE MORE Vietnam’s government has set target of bringing the bad debt ratio down to below 2% in 2019, local media reported. SEE MORE Vietnam’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 7.08 percent in 2018, the highest in the past 11 years, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on December 27. SEE MORE Vietnam’s trade surplus in the January-November period reached an all-time high of US$7.4 billion, 3.5 times higher than the full-year figure of US$2.1 billion for 2017, backed by the foreign direct investment (FDI) sector, Thanh Nien newspaper reported, citing statistics from the General Department of Vietnam Customs. SEE MORE Vietnam’s public debt is expected to account for 61.1 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018, which is within the allowable limit by the National Assembly and lower than expected in mid-term financial plan, according to the leader of the Department of Debt Management and External Finance under the Ministry of Finance. SEE MORE
