Keyword: "poverty"

The Indonesian middle class has been shrinking over the past five years, the Jakarta Post reported on December 31.

Vietnam is also a leader in incorporating multidimensional poverty measures that go beyond income to include factors like access to health care, education, sanitation and clean water, into national policy, said Ramla Khalidi, UNDP Resident Representative in Vietnam.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho held a ceremony in Thoi An district on March 11 to break the ground to build 100 houses for poor, near-poor, and needy households in the city.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s recent article provides objective assessments on the outcomes, achievements and experience that the Party and country have gained throughout historical periods, thus inspiring people’s pride in the Party, President Ho Chi Minh and the heroic Vietnamese nation, and reinforcing their confidence in the country’s path towards socialism, according to Dr. Nguyen Huu Cuong from the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The Department of State Reserves in charge of Vinh Phuc and Phu Tho provinces has allocated over 267 tonnes of rice to nearly 4,500 disadvantaged students in Phu Tho province.

The latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that 9.8% of Philippine families experienced "involuntary" hunger at least once in the third quarter of 2023.

The southeastern province of Binh Phuoc has earmarked 120.6 billion VND (5.1 million USD) this year for an annual programme to help 1,000 poor ethnic households escape poverty.

President Vo Van Thuong on May 13 attended a ceremony to launch a programme to provide housing support to poor households in the northern province of Dien Bien, which aims to build 7,000-8,000 houses for the needy in the locality and some Northwestern provinces within one year.

The provincial People’s Committee in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has approved funding of 120.6 billion VND (5.14 million USD) this year to support over 1,000 ethnic minority households to get out of poverty.

Minister of Public Security General To Lam called on donors to continue joining hands to build houses for the poor and Agent Orange/dioxin (AO) victims, during the launch of a programme to give housing support to poor households and AO victims in the northern province of Hung Yen on March 13.

Malaysian Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) chairman Tan Sri Idris Jusoh said the country and Indonesia have reached a resolution to reduce poverty in Southeast Asia and increase food security in the region, Bernama news agency reported.

The Mekong Delta province of Long An has taken effective measures to eradicate poverty.

Statistics Indonesia (BPS) has announced that as of September 2022, the number of poor people in the country had increased to 26.36 million people, making up 9.57% of the total population and up 0.03% compared to March 2022.

More than 8.1 million Thai people are poor, including 4.4 million living below the poverty line, according to the latest report by the Office of the National Economics and Social Development Council (NESDC).

Many farmer households in the northern province of Bac Ninh have benefited from soft loans to develop their production and increase income thanks to the support from the provincial Fund for Farmer Support.

About 2.3 million people in the Philippines were pushed into poverty between 2018 and 2021, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

Over recent years, in addition to protecting border security, the young soldiers of Son La Province’s Border Guard have also conducted programmes to improve local people’s living standards.

With the new multi-dimensional poverty line approved last year, the near poor and poor household rate in Vietnam increases from 5.2% in 2020 to 9.35% this year, meaning an additional 10 million people to benefit from the Government’s social protection and poverty reduction policies and programmes in 2021-2025 period.

Peach blossoms have added a certain charm to the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh in the spring-time, while generating stable incomes and helping local farmers escape from poverty.

With effective implementation of the lending programme, over the past 19 years, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has become an effective tool in realising emergency credit policies, contributing to the country's poverty reduction cause.