become innovative and adopt new technologies to increase their export
competitiveness through its three-year Business Sector Programme.
The programme has two other components: helping the Central Institute
of Economic Management, Institute of Labour Studies and Social Affairs
and General Statistics Office improve its economic research and
analytical capacity and providing support to strengthen the national
system of occupational safety and health by improving working
conditions, reducing pollution at the workplace, and preventing
occupational accidents and diseases.
The 422 billion
VND (21.6 million USD) programme will be implemented next year in six
provinces in the central and central highland region — Nghe An, Thanh
Hoa, Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen, Lam Dong, and Dak Lak — and An Giang province
and Can Tho City in the south.
The programme is
awaiting approval from the Vietnamese Government. The two countries are
expected to sign the agreement in December enabling the programme to get
under way in January./.
