Vietnam: Good economic forecasting vital for nation's sustainable development.

Section: Commentary - Dr Le Dinh An, director of the National Centre for Socio-economic Information and Forecast (NCSIF), spoke to Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper about the need for accurate financial data.

In an article recently published in Dau Tu, you emphasised the importance of information, forecasting and critical analysis as the nucleus of economic plans of action. Could you elaborate on that? It is time to focus on economic data as an important development resource. Forecasting and warning about the state of the economy is an indispensable tool in economic management, especially in macro-economics, as part of ensuring sustainable development.

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