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PM orders price stabilisation effort during holidays
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung issued a Directive to call for stronger production and price stabilisation during the upcoming Lunar New Year Holiday on Nov. 30.
Under Directive 2164/CT-TTg, ministries, sectors and localities must focus on removing legal barriers and create favourable conditions for businesses to expand production to ensure smooth provision of key commodities like rice, poultry, meat, vegetables, milk, construction materials, medicines and travel services.
The Ministry of Finance was assigned to co-ordinate with other relevant ministries and localities to maintain the prices of coal, electricity and petrol.
The State Bank of Viet Nam must take strong measures to stabilise the prices of gold and foreign currencies as well as interest rates.
Severe punishments will be given to those who speculate or corner gold and foreign currencies on the market.
Inspections will be tightened against speculation, smuggling, and trade fraud, and criminal prosecution will be applied if necessary.
So far of this year, the Government has already implemented measures to develop production, and ensure price stabilisation, and the balance of supply and demand for goods and services.
The national average consumer price index in 11 months exceeded the annual forecast with a year-on-year increase of 8.96 per cent.
At the beginning of this year, the Government targeted a nationwide CPI of eight per cent.
In November alone, Viet Nam's CPI rose 1.86 per cent over the previous month. This figure increased by 11.09 per cent over November 2009, and 9.58 per cent over December 2009.
In the Directive, Dung said the cause of the problem was a few organisations and individuals that did not take price management seriously.
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