About 8 million ethnic minority people in Vietnam will benefit from a project to promote their access to and management capacity of farmland and forest land, CARE International said.
President Truong Tan Sang has signed a decision presenting gifts to people who made significant contributions to the national revolutionary cause, on the occasion of the traditional Lunar New Year.
A credit policy that allows families who have just escaped from poverty within the last three years to receive preferential loans is proving effective in localities nationwide.
The central city of Da Nang basically fulfilled poverty elimination objectives by the end of 2015, accomplishing the targets set for 2013-2017 two years ahead of schedule.
The Mekong Delta province of An Giang should accelerate its economic growth and climb to a high position in the region by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on January 4.
A new set of criteria relating to education, health, employment, social insurance, living conditions and access to information will be applied to determine poor and near-poor households from 2016-2020
The northern province of Lao Cai aims for an economic growth rate of 10.1 percent next year, with Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) per capita of 45.8 million VND (more than 2,000 USD).
Preferential loans from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies have helped lift 121,000 households in the Central Highlands region out of poverty since 2013.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on November 15 shared joy over the national great unity festival with locals in Thap Thuong Village, Dan Phuong district, Hanoi.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung affirmed that progress continued to be made in almost all socio-economic aspects over the first ten months of 2015 at the Government’s meeting in Hanoi on October 29.
National target programmes should be reshuffled and combined into just two programmes, one on building new-style rural areas and the other on sustainable poverty reduction.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has replaced the single-dimensional approach to poverty with the multidimensional measurement method for 2016 – 2020 period.
Vietnam has taken the lead in applying a multidimensional poverty measurement approach in Asia, which is part of efforts to realise its commitments to eradicating poverty in all forms.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has asked Ho Chi Minh authorities to creatively apply measures and policies approved by the Government to realise the city’s poverty reduction targets.
The number of Indonesians living in poverty reached 28.59 million, or 11.22 percent of the population, as of March 2015, up 860,000 people compared to September 2014.
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