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The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is making efforts to reduce the rate of poor households by 2.5-3 percent by 2020.

The southern province of Binh Duong has become the only province in Vietnam that has no poor or near-poor households thanks to the province’s efforts to hit poverty reduction targets.

Nearly 440,000 people in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have been covered by health insurance to date, representing 82 percent of the province’s population.

The central province of Thanh Hoa is carrying out an one-month survey to compile a full list of poor- and near-poor households based on multi-dimensional poverty criteria.

The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has offered financial support to 84,000 poor, near-poor and ethnic minority households to improve their livelihoods over the past five years.

The Northwestern mountainous region has the highest number of poor and near-poor households, which account for more than half of its total households.

More than 454,000 poor and near-poor households will receive set-top boxes, the assistance sub-committee for the steering committee for digitising television plans was told at a recent meeting.

The number of poor households in the Central Highlands region has dropped to 8.5 percent with the rate among ethnic minority groups standing at 18 percent.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has raised standards of poor and near-poor households, which will be applied during 2016-2020.