Promoting Rapid, Sustainable and Pro-poor Economic Growth for Achieving Millennium Development Goals in Viet Nam

Promoting Rapid, Sustainable and Pro-poor Economic Growth for Achieving Millennium Development Goals in Viet Nam

June 20, 2013

This synthesis paper summarises findings of selected studies on the broad topics of rapid, sustainable and pro-poor growth in Viet Nam and in Asia towards achieving the MDGs carried out and/or commissioned by the UNDP’s Asia-Pacific Regional Programme on the Macroeconomics of Poverty Reduction, UNDP’s Viet Nam country’s office, ILO and SIDA during the 2002-2004 period. Drawing on extensive Asian and Vietnamese experience, these studies made a number of recommendations on active pro-poor fiscal policy, efficiency of public investments, development of private sector including SMEs with special focus on employment creation, public administration reforms – all aim at making economic growth more rapid, sustainable and pro-poor, and development more inclusive of the poor.

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