{"id":373694,"date":"2026-01-16T17:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373694\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:47:15","slug":"bangkok-post-vietnam-targets-5-5bn-in-foreign-loans-for-2026-for-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373694\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok Post – Vietnam targets $5.5bn in foreign loans for 2026 for infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Traffic on a street in Hanoi on April 6, 2024. (Photo: Reuters) <\/p>\n

HANOI – Vietnam \u200dplans \u200dto secure $5.5 billion (172.5 billion baht) in foreign loans in 2026 as it seeks to speed up \u200cthe construction of large-scale national infrastructure \u200bprojects and tackle persistent bottlenecks in the disbursement of development finance, its government said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Last month, the Southeast Asian nation commenced construction on 234 infrastructure projects worth 3,400 trillion dong (4 trillion baht). Of the \u200ctotal, 18% will be funded by the state, with the remainder to come from private and other investors.<\/p>\n

The government did not give \u200ca breakdown of the planned 2026 foreign loans or provide detail about the types of borrowing, which are expected to include official development assistance (ODA), concessional loans, and \u2060other forms of external financing.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Vietnam secured $624 million in new ODA and concessional loans for 10 projects, a level consistent with the previous year, according to Deputy Finance Minister Tran Quoc Phuong. However, only 35.27% was disbursed, a decrease from the prior year’s rate, Phuong told the National Steering Committee on ODA.<\/p>\n

Phuong said the delays were \u200ccaused \u200dby a broad range of challenges including the need to clear land and resettle residents and the difficulty of \u200capproving \u200bconstruction projects in forest areas, as well as bidding processes, tax complications, and prolonged loan negotiations.<\/p>\n

Issues with land pricing and adjustments to loan agreements further compounded the obstacles, he said.<\/p>\n

The government has prioritised public investment as a key driver of the economy, and has set \u2060its 2026 GDP growth target at over 10%. A \u200bnew ODA strategy for the 2026\u20132030 period aims to attract up to $38 billion, primarily for major infrastructure development.<\/p>\n

Vietnam last year amended its public debt management law to streamline \u200bprocesses and delegate more authority for ODA agreement negotiations \u200dand address the procedural inefficiencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUBLISHED : 16 Jan 2026 at 14:11 \u00a0 Small \u00a0 Medium \u00a0 Large Traffic on a street in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,464,465,142364,56,54,55,5673,14026],"class_list":{"0":"post-373694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-infrastructure","11":"tag-investment","12":"tag-oda","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-vietnam","17":"tag-vietnam-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}