Việt Nam to accelerate socio-economic development among ethnic minorities The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Committee for Ethnic Minorities Affairs  (CEMA) on Monday launched a project to help partners from central to local level promote their roles and strengths in designing and experimenting innovative solutions to accelerate poverty reduction among ethnic minorities.

City sets new poverty standards for 2021-2025 period The HCM City Sustainable Poverty Reduction Steering Board has submitted its new multi-dimensional poverty standards for the 2021-2025 period to the city People's Committee.

Deputy PM urges building multi-dimensional poverty standards for 2021-25 Over VNĐ10 trillion from the State budget has been earmarked for carrying out the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction this year.

Proposal made to adjust poverty calculation levels The Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs is drafting new multi dimensional poverty levels applicable during 2021-2025 with higher criteria.

Việt Nam sticks to poverty reduction targets Việt Nam will stick to the target of cutting national average poverty rate by 1 to 1.5 per cent each year and prioritise investment in extremely disadvantaged, mountainous and ethnic minority areas.

Multi-dimensional poverty measurements need adjustment

Multi-dimensional poverty standards should be adjusted to suit the current economic conditions of the country, an official of Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has said.

Health insurance suggested to cover assistive tools for the disabled Health insurance policies for people with disabilities were discussed at a workshop in Hà Nội late last week to attract attention to the necessity for health insurance to also cover payments for assistive tools and devices for the disabled.

Text message campaign launched to support the poor The Ministry of Information and Communications, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the standing board of the Việt Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, launched a text message campaign on Saturday to raise money to support the impoverished nationwide.

HCM City aims to have no poor households by end of 2020

Local authorities need to learn more about the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty and offer solutions to reduce the poverty rate in HCM City, Võ Thị Dung, deputy secretary of the city’s Party Committee, said at a workshop on sustainable poverty reduction held yesterday (May 22).

Inaugural seminar on multi-dimensional review of Việt Nam

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held an inaugural seminar on the multi-dimensional review of Việt Nam in Hà Nội on Tuesday.