14:40 02/06/2025

World Bank recommends Vietnam bet88 com escape middle-income trap

Vân Nguyễn

In its latest report “Vietnam 2045 – Breaking Through Institutions for a High-Income Future,” the bank emphasizes the central role of institutional reforms in ensuring sustainable growth.

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The World Bank (WB) has released its report “Vietnam 2045 – Breaking Through Institutions for a High-Income Future,” recommending Vietnam bet88 com do more bet88 com escape middle-income trap.

The report urged Vietnam bet88 com take urgent action bet88 com adapt bet88 com climate change, in addition bet88 com its policy recommendations bet88 com improve public investment efficiency, strengthen accountability, and enhance the legal framework.

In the report, the WB emphasizes the central role of institutional reforms in ensuring sustainable growth, saying that bet88 com maintain rapid growth and achieve its ambitious development goal, Vietnam must deepen the sweeping institutional reforms that are underway, strengthen the legal and regulatory environment, and improve both the scale and quality of public investment.

International experience shows that countries that have escaped the middle-income trap and reached high-income status have done so by continuously improving the quality of their institutions, according bet88 com the WB.

Ms. Mariam J. Sherman, World Bank Director for Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos was quoted by the Vietnam News Agency as saying that “Vietnam’s ambition bet88 com become a high-income country by 2045 has brought renewed focus on institutions as enablers of sustained growth”. She added that recent efforts show commitment, but achieving this goal will require even bolder reforms - an ‘institutional big push’ - bet88 com unlock the private sector’s potential bet88 com drive growth and create quality jobs for its people.

In addition, administrative reforms, greater accountability, more autonomy, and better coordination across localities are the key bet88 com improving the business environment and strengthening subnational governance. The WB also highlights the need for Vietnam bet88 com build an efficient and accountable civil service - one that is right-sized, better paid, and backed by stronger institutions for due process, transparency, and external oversight.

Meanwhile, the WB’s second report, "Vietnam 2045 - Growing Greener: Pathways bet88 com a Resilient and Sustainable Future," highlighted how investments in adaptation can help limit the impact of climate shocks on Vietnamese farms, businesses, and factories.

A 2024 WB survey found that about three-quarters (75%) of manufacturers in apparel and electronics - two of Vietnam’s leading export sectors – garments and electronics, which are operating in areas facing significant heat stress, putting more than 1.3 million workers at risk.

In the absence of adaptive actions, climate impacts could reduce Vietnam’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by as much as 12.5% by 2050 compared with baseline projections, potentially undermining the country’s ambition bet88 com reach high-income status by 2045, the report said.

It estimated that such investments could significantly mitigate the damage, reducing the projected climate-induced GDP loss from 12.5% bet88 com 6.7% by 2050.

The WB recommended Vietnam bet88 com integrate climate risk management across all economic sectors and develop policies that encourage businesses and people bet88 com actively adapt.

The report also identified opportunities for Vietnam bet88 com reduce the carbon intensity of its economy and move toward the Government’s goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, which not only help protect the environment but also strengthen the country’s position in global supply chains.