GSO Forecasts Vietnam GDP Growth of 4.8 per cent to 5.6 per cent This Year
Vietnam's GDP growth is forecast to rise 4.8 per cent to 5.6 per cent this year, the government's General Statistics Office said on March 27.
The industrial production value is predicted to have 4.6 per cent to 6.1 per cent, and the value of the agriculture sector to rise 2.5 per cent to 4.5 per cent, the GSO noted.
The exports are forecast to hit US$56 billion to US$58 billion while imports are predicted to reach US$63 billion to US$65 billion, the GSO said.
Unemployment rates will be 7.7 per cent and poverty rate will be 12.2 per cent to 12.4 per cent this year, it added.
Earlier this month, the World Bank and the IMF revised GDP growth to 5.5 per cent and 4.75 per cent, respectively from 6.5 per cent and 5 per cent, state media said.
Deputy PM Nguyen Sinh Hung recently assured at a business conference that GDP growth of Vietnam will be 5 per cent to 6 per cent to be led by the rising domestic demand. (GSO March 2009)
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