Hanoi, Sept. 15 -- Vietnam expects to mobilise around 370 million USD in official development assistance (ODA) and foreign concessional loans in the last four months of 2025, according to the Ministry of Finance.

In the first eight months of this year, Vietnam secured nearly 450 million USD from ODA and foreign concessional loans. With the new inflows projected for the rest of the year, total mobilisation in 2025 could approach 820 million USD, matching the country's annual average of 800 million to 1 billion USD during the 2021-2025 period, except for 2022 when the figure dropped sharply due to COVID-19 impacts.

Despite stable mobilisation, disbursement has remained sluggish. From 2021 to 2024, only about 66.5 trillion VND (over 2.5 bi...