Vietnam aims to reduce the rate of poor households by 1-1.5 percenteach year under the updated standards of poverty between 2016 and 2020,according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs(MoLISA).
The updated standards of poverty,currently under development and will take effect from 2016, extendbeyond the use of income as the only determination of poverty to includethe minimum living standard and the access to basic social needs.
MOLISA Minister Pham Thi Hai Chuyen said the ministry will focus ondeveloping new poverty criteria on a multi-dimensional approach whileadvising the government in revising its poverty reduction mechanism andpolicies to limit investment dispersal and ensure priority is given tomountainous and ethnic minority areas.
Accordingto Direction No 23/CT-TTg issued on August 5, 2014 by the PrimeMinister, only two national target programmes will be implementedbetween 2016 and 2020: the Sustainable Poverty Alleviation TargetProgramme and the New-style Rural Building Target Programme.
Under this guidance, the MoLISA proposed a National Target ProgrammeFramework for Sustainable Poverty Alleviation which closely follows thePublic Investment Law and the Government’s Resolution No 80/NQ-CP on thedirection of sustainable poverty alleviation from 2011 to 2020.
Besides the target in poverty rate reduction, the programme frameworkalso looks to enhance access to basic social services, improveinfrastructure, and double the income of households rated as poorcompared to the 2015 level.
In 2014 alone, atotal of 34.7 trillion VND (1.65 billion USD) was allocated for povertyalleviation efforts, 30.8 trillion VND of which came from the Statebudget and the remaining 3.8 trillion VND from other sources.
The rate of poor households dropped from 14.2 percent in 2010 to 2percent in 2014 thanks to national poverty alleviation efforts.
The rate of disadvantaged households in impoverished districts wasalso reduced from 50.97 percent in 2011 to 33.20 percent in 2014, anaverage decrease of 5 percent per year.-VNA
The updated standards of poverty,currently under development and will take effect from 2016, extendbeyond the use of income as the only determination of poverty to includethe minimum living standard and the access to basic social needs.
MOLISA Minister Pham Thi Hai Chuyen said the ministry will focus ondeveloping new poverty criteria on a multi-dimensional approach whileadvising the government in revising its poverty reduction mechanism andpolicies to limit investment dispersal and ensure priority is given tomountainous and ethnic minority areas.
Accordingto Direction No 23/CT-TTg issued on August 5, 2014 by the PrimeMinister, only two national target programmes will be implementedbetween 2016 and 2020: the Sustainable Poverty Alleviation TargetProgramme and the New-style Rural Building Target Programme.
Under this guidance, the MoLISA proposed a National Target ProgrammeFramework for Sustainable Poverty Alleviation which closely follows thePublic Investment Law and the Government’s Resolution No 80/NQ-CP on thedirection of sustainable poverty alleviation from 2011 to 2020.
Besides the target in poverty rate reduction, the programme frameworkalso looks to enhance access to basic social services, improveinfrastructure, and double the income of households rated as poorcompared to the 2015 level.
In 2014 alone, atotal of 34.7 trillion VND (1.65 billion USD) was allocated for povertyalleviation efforts, 30.8 trillion VND of which came from the Statebudget and the remaining 3.8 trillion VND from other sources.
The rate of poor households dropped from 14.2 percent in 2010 to 2percent in 2014 thanks to national poverty alleviation efforts.
The rate of disadvantaged households in impoverished districts wasalso reduced from 50.97 percent in 2011 to 33.20 percent in 2014, anaverage decrease of 5 percent per year.-VNA
