Tokyo (VNA) – The Daily Yomiuri of Japan on its publication on Dec. 29 ran an article about Viet Nam ’s economy, saying Viet Nam would see considerably increases in foreign investment and export earnings after the country officially joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) in January, 2007.
The newspaper cited Viet Nam ’s Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper as saying that in spite of a series of difficulties and challenges including epidemics and natural disasters, Viet Nam ’s economic growth rate is likely to reach nearly 8.2 percent this year, as compared with 8.5 percent scheduled for 2007. In 2004, Viet Nam GDP’s growth rate reached 8.4 percent, the second fastest rate in Asia after China .
It also predicted that Viet Nam can rake in over 10 billion USD from foreign direct investment this year and gross export earnings totalling nearly 40 billion USD, the highest rise so far.-Enditem
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