The May issue of World Business has listed Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung among the top 20 progressives for significant contributions maintaining the country’s sustainable economic growth rate, boosting the fight against corruption, and WTO accession, state media reported Thursday.
Dung, the first leader born after the August Revolution in 1945, was appointed Prime Minister in June 2006 to replace his predecessor, Phan Van Khai, becoming the youngest leader at 57.
An article posted on World Business website ranked PM Dung the fifth progressive man, a technocrat and economically literate leader who was selected to carry on economic reforms.
Dung was named among five deputy prime ministers in 1997; a year later he was also installed as State Bank of Vietnam governor, where he pushed forward monetary reform and bank mergers, thus giving the country’s financial system a more stable foundation.
On one of his first overseas trips as prime minister, Dung met the Pope at the Vatican in January, the first Vietnamese leader to do so, it said.
State President Nguyen Minh Triet and Communist Party Chief Nong Duc Manh are also praised as reformers and modernizers keen on privatizing state-owned assets.
Recently, PM Dung was also labeled the most dynamic among leaders of Vietnam, since being in office over 200 days from last June, while his subordinates play a weaker role, leading economist Le Dang Doanh remarked.
Domestic analysts expressed concern about overloading the young PM, who traveled across the country solving problems big and small, from changing the title of a university to upholding the flag on the anticorruption front. (Labor, Young People, World Business Website)
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