The Mekong Delta province of An Giang plans to reduce its poverty rate from 2.63 percent to less than 2 percent by the end of this year, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
Over 209,000 households in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai have benefited from Programme 135, a government programme for the most vulnerable communes in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, in the 2011-2020 period , which had total budget of 1.63 trillion VND (69.8 million USD).
Vietnam has basically achieved the target of health insurance for all, but it still needs to further expand the coverage of social insurance, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
A tree-planting festival was launched in Khuon Dien village, Kim Quan commune, Yen Son district, the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang, on January 29 or the fifth day of the first lunar month.
Cambodia has succeeded in implementing an effective FDI-led development strategy, achieving 7 percent in GDP growth rates accompanied by rapidly falling poverty rate, according to the World Bank (WB).
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.
The Indonesian government has prepared three scenarios for its national economic growth projection for the next five years to enhance its resilience to threats of global upheavals.
The household poverty rate is set to reduce further this year, but the wealth gap is still widening, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).
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.
The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has set a target to reduce its rate of poor household to below 1.9 percent by 2020 from the current 2.85 percent.
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang strives to reduce the poverty rate to 2.99 percent by the end of 2019, down 0.41 percent, or 1,950 households, from 2018.
Chairwoman of the Lao National Assembly Pany Yathotou has commended bilateral cooperation between Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong and the Lao provinces of Champasak and Bolykhamxay in recent years.
Indonesia has been striving to bring its poverty rate down to 9 percent by the end of this year, according to the country’s Development Planning Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro.
Some 12,000 households in Hanoi escaped poverty this year, bringing the local poverty rate down to 1.16 percent, a goal achieved two years ahead of schedule, heard a conference on December 26.
Vietnam has reported its outstanding achievements in guaranteeing human rights in its third-cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR), said Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang
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