Dak Nong spent nearly 52 billion VND (2.33 million USD) on poverty reduction in 2017, helping bring the poverty rate among local households down by 2.63 percent from 2016 to 16.57 percent.
Vietnam proposed a resolution on strengthening intra-regional cooperation to build an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) of equal development and inclusive growth at the second plenary session of the 38th ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) General Assembly in the Philippines on September 19.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and the French Development Agency (AFD) have jointly held a workshop to map out development orientations for the microfinance sector in Vietnam.
Eighty two out of 125 communes and six out of ten districts in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh are expected to become new-style rural areas by the end of 2015.
Members of the Central Steering Committee on Sustainable Poverty
Reduction have suggested policymakers review assistance policies on the
issue carefully to support Vietnam ’s long-term comprehensive poverty
reduction and growth strategy.
Despite economic difficulties
and limited resources in 2013, Vietnam has ensured social security
thanks to the government's efforts to allocate sufficient resources to
poverty reduction programmes and social policies, reported Radio the
Voice of Vietnam.
The capital city of Hanoi is taking the lead nationwide in poverty
reduction with local poor households cut by half to 40,000 over the last
five years, said a report by the municipal People’s Committee.
Communist Review presents an article by Vu Van Ninh, member of
the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Central
Steering Committee for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the 2011 - 2020
period.
Poverty reduction is a priority policy for Vietnam to improve poor people’s living
conditions, narrow the development gap and implement the UN Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), a senior Government official has said.
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