Many poor households in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long have escaped poverty through central and local poverty alleviation programmes that provide soft loans to carry on business or agriculture.
Poverty alleviation programmes aiming to help people in mountainous areas of central Quang Ngai province are ineffective and unsustainable, local authorities said.
World Bank Board of Executive Directors on June 29 has approved a preferential credit package worth 153 million USD for Vietnam’s national programme on poverty reduction and rural development.