4 megatrends affect Vietnam: WB official

At a national conference on Thursday in Vietnam’s Hanoi capital, Ousmane Dione, country director for the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam discussed four megatrends affecting Vietnam’s sustainable and competitive development.

[…]Meanwhile, climate change poses a significant risk to Vietnam, he said, noting that rising sea-levels expose a third of the country’s population to the risk of flooding, growing to more than 80 percent in the Mekong and Red River deltas.

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