4:00:15 PM | 8/10/2008
Vietnam reportedly received US$1.415 billion of ODA out of the total US$1.826 billion pledged by donors through signed deals in the first nine months this year, the state-run Cong An Nhan Dan newspaper said.
The US$1.415 billion disbursement accounted for 74.5 per cent of the year’s target, the paper said.
Of the US$1.415 ODA Vietnam received, funds provided by the JBIC, World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) were US$1.04 billion, accounting for 73.5 per cent, the paper added. (People’s Police, Vietnam Economic Times)