Ministry outlines two economic growth scenarios for 2025
A stretch of the Hanoi Highway and Metro Line 1 (Bến Thành - Suối Tiên) in District 2, HCM City. Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecast Việt Nam's economy will grow 6.2 per cent next year. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Vũ |
HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Planning and Investment recently presented to the Government three economic growth trajectories for 2025, with the highest rate forecast at 7.5 per cent.
In the first scenario, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) is predicted at 6.5-7 per cent, and inflation rate at 4-4.5 per cent, given the global situation staying complicated and unpredictable, the global economic growth remaining low, and the global macroeconomic environment facing numerous risks. As a result, the average economic expansion for the 2021-25 period will be 5.8-6 per cent.
Meanwhile, in the second, the ministry eyes a GDP growth of around 7-7.5 per cent, and inflation rate at 4.5 per cent, which could be achieved if the global situation, economic powers, and major trading partners of Việt Nam enjoy better improvements than expected, and industrial production, export and foreign investment attraction on a strong surge. In this scenario, the average GDP growth will be 5.9-6.1 per cent.
The ministry has been in favour of the first one since the domestic economy has been affected by adverse external developments, while several intrinsic problems could not be improved in a short term.
In its recent forecast, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said the Vietnamese economy would grow 6 per cent this year, and 6.2 per cent in 2025. ADB Country Director for Việt Nam Shantanu Chakraborty held that robust rebound in trade, production, and foreign investment attraction had brought rosy signs to the Vietnamese economy.
The bank also gave a positive prospect for the economy, estimating the GDP to expand 6.1 per cent in 2024, and 6.5 per cent in 2025. It hailed the economy’s resilience capacity amidst increasing challenges across the globe.
With a view to concretising the economic growth target of 6.5-7 per cent this year, and even higher in 2025, the ministry proposed prioritising growth on the basis of stabilising the macroeconomy, curbing inflation, ensuring major balances, accelerating the disbursement of public investment, attracting foreign investment, and mobilising resources from state-owned corporations.
Besides, it was necessary to restructure the economy in tandem with improving productivity and competitive edge, renewing traditional growth drives, and bolstering digital, green and circular economies, and focus on reviewing and removing bottlenecks, particularly legal procedures, for development, the ministry added.
WB experts said the recovery of manufacturing and processing exports, and that of tourism, consumption and investment were important drivers of the Vietnamese economy’s growth.
The bank’s East Asia and Pacific Practice Manager for Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Sebastian Eckardt held that developing the capital market would create long-term funding for the economy, helping Việt Nam realise its target of becoming a high-income nation by 2045.
Pushing ahead the disbursement of public capital would not only help stimulate demand in the short term but also deal with infrastructure shortages, especially in energy, transport, and logistics, which are seen as barriers to economic growth, he added.
Meanwhile, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyễn Chí Dũng affirmed that luring investment in pioneering industries like semiconductor and AI would be a key that would enable Việt Nam to catch up with, advance together, and overtake others in the global playground.
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