The Indonesian government has set an economic growth target of 5.6 percent in 2020, up from the 5.3 percent targeted this year, said Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said he expects the northern port city of Hai Phong will take the lead in developing a modern agricultural industry while addressing a conference on October 15 to review the implementation of the national programme on new-style rural building areas in the city in 2010-2020.
A music show, the 19th of its kind, will be held in Ho Chi Minh City and live broadcast on HTV1 and HTV9 channels at 8:45pm on October 24 to raise funds for the poor.
Hanoi has consistently implemented the policy of allocating large amount of resources to the development of mountainous and ethnic minority areas in the city towards narrowing the gap between those areas and other localities, it was reported at a conference on October 3.
The capital amounts may be small to many urban families but thanks to them, those in rural and ethnic minority areas have escaped poverty and enriched themselves.
Social policy credit has reached all the communal-level localities nationwide, greatly helping with efforts towards sustainable poverty reduction, heard a teleconference in Hanoi on September 23.
As much as 91.2 percent of the population in the northern province of Vinh Phuc have joined health insurance, surpassing the target the locality has set for 2020.
Credit for social policy beneficiaries has contributed significantly to narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, reducing unemployment rate, and developing local economy.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will propose that the Government reduce the eligible age for social welfare benefits from 80 to 75, said Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung.
The World Bank (WB) has approved a loan of 300 million USD to accelerate poverty reduction and improve services in more than 66,000 villages in 380 districts across Indonesia.
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.
Local authorities need to learn more about the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty and offer solutions to reduce the poverty rate in Ho Chi Minh City, Deputy Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Vo Thi Dung said at a workshop on sustainable poverty reduction held on May 22.
Around 100 policies and documents related to ethnic minority groups in the Mekong Delta have been implemented to develop essential infrastructure and production, reduce poverty and improve the living standards of local residents.
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh visited poor households and Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on January 21, ahead of the Tet (Lunar New Year) celebrations.
About six million Vietnamese people escaped from poverty between 2012-2016, with the poverty ratio dropping from 15.9 to 9.1 percent during the period, according to a report released on December 19.
The poverty rate of ethnic minority households in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau fell by more than 3 percent each year after three years of implementation of its national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction that began in 2016.
The multidimensional approach to poverty, which has been adopted by Vietnam for nearly three years, have produced encouraging results, reflected in remarkable improvement in living conditions in disadvantaged areas.
Hanoi has invested greatly in building new-style rural areas over the past few years, helping improve the living standards of rural residents, said a municipal official.
A texting campaign will be launched on October 1 to support disadvantaged people, as part of efforts to respond to the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the Day for the Poor in Vietnam.
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