Viet Nam Development Effectiveness Country Brief

Abstract

ADB support to pro-poor economic growth has demonstrated that efforts to link rural infrastructure with emerging national and regional infrastructure networks can derive major benefits. ADB’s assistance to develop the road and energy sectors and to establish policy and regulatory environments supportive of business and market institutions, has contributed to a rapid increase in the number and size of private firms. ADB successfully combined such interventions with poverty targeted support through its health and education sector programs and through Official Development Assistance (ODA)- supported poverty reduction programs including the multi-donor policy dialogue platform Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC). A self-assessment of the last Country Strategy and Program (CSP) concluded that ADB’s assistance was focused and selective, presented a coherent rationale, and was highly responsive to national strategies with poverty reduction as its overarching thrust. Constructive partnerships have been developed with the Government and other development partners for advancing reform agendas in key sectors.