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Anhao Paper Factory, 1961. South Vietnam had a small industrial sector and fell far behind other countries in the region in this respect. [1] Output increased 2.5 to 3 times over the 20 years of the country's existence, but the share in total GDP remained at only around 10%, even dropping to 6% in some years, while the economy was dominated by strong agricultural and service sectors. [1]
In Vietnam, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, are important sectors of the economy, accounting for 21 percent of GDP in 2009. [5] Vietnam possesses certain comparative advantages in agriculture and forestry due to the country's abundance of factors in favor of productive crop like cultivation land, forest cover, sea territories, tropical ...
Vietnam’s GDP grew by 7.09% in 2024, ahead of government forecasts of 6.5%. Yet Vietnam’s trade surplus with the U.S. could put it at risk of new tariffs.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has been developed since 1987 by the combination of different government ministries: Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Food, combined to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry in 1987; the subsequent addition of the Ministry of Forestry and the Ministry of Irrigation to form today's Ministry; as well as the addition of the Ministry of ...
VinaCapital was founded in 2003 by Don Lam [5] [6] [7] and Horst Geicke, who served as executive chairman until 2012. [8] [9] [10] The company developed a diversified portfolio including several funds [11] [8] [12] and also founded the VinaCapital Foundation, a public charitable organization to empower children and youth in Vietnam such as financing of cardiac surgery.
Development plans were to focus equally on agriculture and industry, while initial investment was to favor projects that developed both sectors of the economy. [1] Thus, for example, heavy industry was intended to serve agriculture on the premise that a rapid increase in agricultural production would in turn fund further industrial growth. [1]
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in Vietnam and other developing countries. IFAD supports more than 200 ongoing programmes and projects around the world.
[3] [4] [5] It is the first state-owned commercial bank of Vietnam, established with the objective of focusing credit resources to serve the development of agriculture, farmers, and rural areas. [6] By 2000, Agribank had 2,300 branches and transaction offices nationwide, accounting for 40% of the agricultural credit market share.