Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan visited Brazil to learn from thecountry’s experience in sustainable poverty reduction, as shared by theBrazilian ministries of social development, hunger prevention andeducation.
The Deputy Prime Minister’s visit from April 16-18 ispart of a programme to survey experience in poverty reduction inBrazil held by the World Bank and the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour,War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) in collaboration with relevantBrazilian ministries.
Within the programme’s framework, Deputy PMNhan toured Rio de Janeiro, which is the first state to implementthe national poverty reduction programme. He also visited severalestablishments registered to Bolsa Familia, the programme providingallowances for the poor, and the management system and units providingconsultancy to those who are in difficult circumstances or facingviolence.
At his meetings, the Deputy PM stressed the VietnameseGovernment gives high priority to poverty reduction and said the countryhas obtained achievements in the field that were recognised around theworld.
He spoke highly of Brazil’s efforts in povertyreduction, saying that he attributed the country’s achievements tostrong coordination between relevant ministries and grassroots agenciesto form task teams to help the poor.
Brazil also built anational database on the poor, in order to effectively implement workrelating to poverty reduction, health care and improvement of educationfor the poor, he said.
On this occasion, MoLISA Deputy MinisterDoan Mau Diep and Deputy Minister of Social Development and HungerPrevention Romulo Paes de Sousa signed an action plan to realise thememorandum of understanding on fighting poverty signed by the twocountries on July 10, 2008 in Hanoi .
Thanks to the Braziliangovernment’s policies on combining economic development and povertyreduction, about 28 million Brazilian people escaped from poverty. About16 million others remain under the poverty line. The country isstriving to become the first developing country in the world to meet itspoverty reduction target according to the first UN millenniumdevelopment goal./.
The Deputy Prime Minister’s visit from April 16-18 ispart of a programme to survey experience in poverty reduction inBrazil held by the World Bank and the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour,War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) in collaboration with relevantBrazilian ministries.
Within the programme’s framework, Deputy PMNhan toured Rio de Janeiro, which is the first state to implementthe national poverty reduction programme. He also visited severalestablishments registered to Bolsa Familia, the programme providingallowances for the poor, and the management system and units providingconsultancy to those who are in difficult circumstances or facingviolence.
At his meetings, the Deputy PM stressed the VietnameseGovernment gives high priority to poverty reduction and said the countryhas obtained achievements in the field that were recognised around theworld.
He spoke highly of Brazil’s efforts in povertyreduction, saying that he attributed the country’s achievements tostrong coordination between relevant ministries and grassroots agenciesto form task teams to help the poor.
Brazil also built anational database on the poor, in order to effectively implement workrelating to poverty reduction, health care and improvement of educationfor the poor, he said.
On this occasion, MoLISA Deputy MinisterDoan Mau Diep and Deputy Minister of Social Development and HungerPrevention Romulo Paes de Sousa signed an action plan to realise thememorandum of understanding on fighting poverty signed by the twocountries on July 10, 2008 in Hanoi .
Thanks to the Braziliangovernment’s policies on combining economic development and povertyreduction, about 28 million Brazilian people escaped from poverty. About16 million others remain under the poverty line. The country isstriving to become the first developing country in the world to meet itspoverty reduction target according to the first UN millenniumdevelopment goal./.
