Public investment disbursement in the first nine months of 2026 increased in both rate and value compared with the same period last year. Alongside efforts to resolve obstacles affecting individual projects, methods of monitoring and assessing progress are also changing. From October, the disbursement performance of ministries, sectors and localities will be officially scored.

Viet Nam attracted 50.36 billion USD in registered foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first nine months of 2026, up 76.4% year-on-year, while disbursed FDI reached 21.07 billion USD, the highest nine-month level in five years, according to the National Statistics Office under the Ministry of Finance.

During discussions on the draft Law amending and supplmenting several articles of the Law on Public Debt Management at the 10th session of the 15th National Assembly (NA), many deputies pointed out that ODA capital disbursement results were often lower than those of projects financed by the public investment budget.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called on ministries, sectors and localities to promote their responsibility to the nation and the people by accelerating the disbursement of public investment, boosting socio-economic growth and improving people's living conditions.

With only four months left until the end of 2025, more than 50% of the public investment capital disbursement plan still needs to be implemented. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested that by the end of the third quarter of 2025, the minimum disbursement rate should reach about 60% of the plan, and by the end of the year achieve 100% of the 2025 capital plan.

Viet Nam's foreign direct investment (FDI) disbursement reached 15.4 billion USD in the January-August period, up 8.8% from the same period last year, according to the National Statistics Office (NSO).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 10 signed an official dispatch requiring all ministries, sectors and localities to speed up the disbursement of public investment in the remaining months of 2022 and the first months of the following year.

The disbursement of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first eight months of this year is estimated to have reached 12.8 billion USD, up 10.5% over the same period last year and marking the highest level in the past five years.