Vietnam’s socio-economic development path for next year is taking shape.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
last week came closer to finalising 2012’s overall prime target, which is to
“continue stabilising the macro-economy, curbing inflation and achieving
reasonable growth rate in close combination with ensuring social welfare.”
“We will not stress too much on
reaching a high growth rate. Instead, we will focus on improving the quality of
growth,” said Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Cao Viet Sinh.
Minister and Government Office
Chairman Vu Duc Dam said though the government would succeed in curbing
inflation this year at 7-8 per cent the target of bridling inflation would be
continued next year.
“The government never lacks
vigilance about possible high inflation recurring,” Dam told a press conference
last week following the government’s monthly economic review meeting. He said
an economy with frequent macro-instability and high inflation “cannot attract
even local investment, much less foreign investment.”
It is the government’s target
that stabilising the macroeconomy and curbing inflation will be persistently
continued in some years, so that at the end of its term [2015], Vietnam will
have a stable economy which will lay firm groundwork for the following years’
development.
The MPI has submitted two
scenarios on 2013’s macro-targets to the government. In the first scenario, the
GDP will grow 6-6.5 per cent on-year, in which the agro-forestry-fisheries,
industrial and construction, and service sectors would grow 2.5-2.8, 6.3-7 and
6.9-7.5 per cent on-year, respectively. Total export turnover would be $124
billion, up 12 per cent on-year.
In the second scenario, the GDP
will grow 5.5-6 per cent on-year, in which the agro-forestry-fisheries,
industrial and construction, and service sectors would on-year grow 2.4-2.7,
5.7-6.3 and 6.5-7 per cent, respectively. Total export turnover would be $123.2
billion, up 11 per cent on-year.
“The government is determined to
curb inflation at a rate lower than or equal to that of 2012, and prune budget
overspending to 4.7 per cent of GDP, from 4.8 per cent this year,” Dam said.
However, Prime Minister Dung said
for such 2013 targets to come true, the government needed to help local
enterprises weather difficulties.
According to HSBC’s Purchasing
Managers’ Index™ 2012, conducted on more than 400 manufacturing companies in
August and released last week, all the indexes about output, new orders,
backlogs of work, stocks of finished goods and employment remained below 50
points, which indicates that the manufacturing economy is declining.
The MPI reported this year’s
first eight months saw some 35,500 enterprises dissolve or stop operations, up
7.1 per cent on-year. Also, the index for industrial production (IIP) rose only
4.7 per cent against the same period last year, when the IIP climbed 7.3 per
cent on-year.
Thanh Thu | vir.com.vn
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