Posted on 02/19/2025 5:39:46 PM PST by tsowellfan
HANOI, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Vietnam's National Assembly on Tuesday approved a bold bureaucratic reform plan that will slash up to a fifth of government bodies, as the country tries to cut costs and improve administrative efficiency.
The number of government ministries will be reduced to 14 from the current of 18, to be up and running from March 1, the assembly said in a statement... More than 97% of the lawmakers present approved the plan. The assembly earlier on Tuesday passed an amendment to a law on organising government, paving the way for approval of the planned cull of 15% to 20% of the state apparatus, which will also include four agencies and five state television channels, among other cuts.
The move would "not only save money for the state budget but more importantly, boost the efficiency of the system...
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Give them the $4 billion Kissinger promised. They could use it vs. China.
btw. Lara Trump/ big announcement on Jessy Watters coming up now. Gotta be Hannity-esque.
All those lives lost.😡😡
My Dad made the argument that Vietnam wad the wrong War. We could have used them against the Chinise. Also, while we were stuck in Vietnam, th3 Soviet Union passed us Militarly.
major staple shut down free speech, yeah its a US Argentinean model
This is a good early trend.
As we move through the 2020’s.
Nations that eliminate or pare down their nonessential bloat, should produce a more productive environment for capital and labor to thrive.
Ones that don’t, will be “sitting behind the eight ball.”
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