Local Databases
Local databases contain business indicators of Vietnam's economy. This helps researchers access and comprehend the country's business environment and facilitates business-related decision-making processes. In the context of Vietnam's increasing economic growth, these local databases appear as the fundamental driven force to facilitate the process of interpreting Vietnam's business environment for either research or investing purposes.
Local Business Databases
Vietnam's Economic Indicators
Learn MorePublished by Moody's Analytics, Vietnam's extensive databases in the economic, demographic, and financial fields in the forms of actual values, historical time series, and news are provided in a holistic perspective. Specifically, critical macroeconomic indicators in detailed numerical values and a descriptive analysis of Vietnam's economy will be displayed.
E-Business Index (EBI)
Learn MoreBeginning in 2012, Vietnam E-Commerce Association (VECOM) has constructed and publicized EBI, a useful quantitative tool to determine the e-commerce development situation across the country and each locality. Since 2021, EBI has been aggregated from three pillars: human resources and infrastructure in information technology (HR & ITI), e-commerce transactions between enterprises and consumers (B2C), and among businesses (B2B).
Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI)
Learn MoreIntroduced in 2005 by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, PCI is used to measure Vietnam's business environment by conducting an annual business survey, assessment, and ranking of provincial authorities' economic governance quality in creating a favourable business environment for the private sector's development.
Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI)
Learn MorePAPI is a policy monitoring tool that reflects citizen experiences with the performance of central to local governments in governance, public administration, and public service delivery. It has collaborated with the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations, the United Nations Development Programme, and other close partnerships with legitimate entities to progressively improve PAPI's accuracy and quality.
Digital Transformation Index (DTI)
Learn MoreDTI, developed and published by Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications in 2020, assesses the country's digital transformation level, each ministry and each locality directly under the Central Government. DIT consists of three groups: the provincial digital transformation index, the ministerial-level digital transformation index, and the national digital transformation index.
Sustainable Development Goals Index (SDG Index Local)
Learn MoreFirst published in 2015, SDG Index is an assessment of each country's performance on the UN's 17 SDGs with each Goal sharing equal weight in a range from 0 (worst possible outcome) to 100 scores (the target). Each country is provided with SDG Dashboards and Trends to indicate priorities and directions countries should focus on for further actions to achieve the Goals by 2030.
Updates on Vietnam's Economy & Business Environment
Taking Stock is a report series prepared by the World Bank for the Annual Consultative Group Meeting for Vietnam which provides an update on economic growth in Vietnam and features a special focus on the challenges and opportunities of cleaner trade. It has been produced every year since 1999 as a background report for the midyear consultative group meeting. Taking stock provides a half-yearly complement to the more complete, and more polished, annual Vietnam development report and annual partnership report.
Most recently, the World Bank has released the Taking Stock: Vietnam Economic Growth Update, August 2022 in light to provide updates on Vietnam's recent economic developments.
"Chapter 1 of this Taking Stock report reviews the recent developments in Vietnam's economy and assesses its short-to-medium term prospects. It examines the country's growth performance, its external balance, and monetary and fiscal policy responses during the first half of 2022. The chapter also discusses the outlook for the Vietnamese economy in the next two to three years, highlighting domestic and external risks.
While efforts to enhance the business environment are crucial to enabling job creation, policymakers should also take steps to reduce skill-mismatches and improve the quality of Vietnam's labor force, being the focus of the second chapter of Taking Stock report."
