Vietnam fiscal deficit lower than projected By Quynh Trang  January 10, 2021 | 09:15 am GMT+7 An employee counts Vietnamese banknotes at a bank in Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy. The fiscal deficit last year was 4 percent of GDP as against the government’s expectation of 5.59 percent amid falling revenues due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Revenues fell 2 percent short of the target to VND1,500 trillion ($64.9 billion), while the expenditure was VND1,780 trillion, Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung said at a meeting on Friday. Nguyen Duc Kien, head of the prime minister’s advisory...