PM Dung and WB President Jim Yong Kim (dangcongsan.vn)
Nhan Dan Online – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met with World Bank (WB) President Jim Yong Kim and WB Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati in Washington D.C. on September 27 to discuss measures to enhance future co-operation between Vietnam and the financial institution.
PM Dung appreciated WB leaders’ decision to maintain preferential loan provisions to Vietnam in the 2014-2017 period and the WB’s efforts in persuading donors to mobilise capital for the International Development Association (IDA) for its future support.
He affirmed the WB’s importance in Vietnam’s socio-economic development, particularly in hunger eradication and poverty reduction, helping the country become a middle-income country, saying that the WB should continue the IDA’s support to needy countries, which has just escaped from poverty, to ensure a sustainable outcome.
Regarding the WB’s support to the country’s economic restructure, PM Dung stated Vietnam’s insistence on stabilising the macro-economy, curbing the inflation, enhancing improvements of the market economy, fostering human resource development, building a complete infrastructure system, as well as boosting the restructure.
The Government has developed mechanisms to facilitate private sector to take part in investment projects, he added.
PM Dung affirmed that the Government really needs donors’ support in both finance and policy consultation and it has taken various measures to accelerate the implementation of WB-funded projects and programmes.
WB President Kim valued the co-operation between the organisation and Vietnam, as well as the country’s achievements in hunger eradication and poverty reduction, inflation control and sustainable development, saying that the WB will continue to support the country’s development.
He suggested that Vietnam should continue to stabilise the macro-economy, curb the inflation, boost bank system restructure and enhance the disbursement of WB loans.
(Source: CPV – Translated by Nhan Dan Online)
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