Vietnam to face huge development challenges in coming decades: Conference
Vietnam will face major development challenges in the coming decades, Jonathan Pincus, a senior economist at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said at an international conference in Hanoi on November 25.
Poster of the event (Source: the organising board)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam will face majordevelopment challenges in the coming decades, Jonathan Pincus, asenior economist at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said at an international conference in Hanoi on November 25.
Pointing out a series of economic and climate change challenges,the expert forecast that in the coming years, the country will see manyinstitutional reforms when its localities, regions, and sectors have to faceprofound changes.
Pincus is one of the four keynote speakers of the two-day "InternationalConference on Contemporary Issues in Economics, Management and Business" organised by the National Economics University (NEU). The annual event aimed tocreate a forum for domestic and foreign scholars to present their research works andexchange knowledge in the fields.
Its fifth editions this year features 17 panel discussions,which revolve around many topics, including finance and accounting, businessadministration, economic development, macroeconomics, marketing, science andtechnology, microeconomics, education, and human resource management. Thesessions are set to be chaired by NEU experts and their peers from the UK,Australia, Belgium, Poland, Thailand and Pakistan, among others.
The organiser received more than 130 research papers, of which about80 are selected for the conference summery record.
ꦜIn his o൩pening speech, NEU President Pham Hong Chuong saidpost-COVID-19 issues are the main theme of the conference, attracting greatattention from scholars in Vietnam and abroad./.
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Poster of the event (Source: the organising board) 
