ꦡ Indonesian middle class shrink for five straight years
The Indonesian middle class has been shrinking over the past five years, the Jakarta Post reported on December 31.
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🌱 Vietnam leads in integrating multidimensional poverty measures into national policy
Vietnam is also a leader in incorporating multidimensional poverty measures that go beyond income to include factors like access to health care, education, sanitation and clean water, into national policy, said Ramla Khalidi, UNDP Resident Representative in Vietnam.
🌸 Can Tho builds 100 houses for poor, near-poor, needy households
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho held a ceremony in Thoi An district on March 11 to break the ground to build 100 houses for poor, near-poor, and needy households in the city.
𒅌 Leader’s article inspires national pride, reinforces confidence in Party’s leadership: Scholars
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s recent article provides objective assessments on the outcomes, achievements and experience that the Party and country have gained throughout historical periods, thus inspiring people’s pride in the Party, President Ho Chi Minh and the heroic Vietnamese nation, and reinforcing their confidence in the country’s path towards socialism, according to Dr. Nguyen Huu Cuong from the Ministry of Science and Technology.
𒉰 Over 267 tonnes of rice given to Phu Tho’s disadvantaged students
The Department of State Reserves in charge of Vinh Phuc and Phu Tho provinces has allocated over 267 tonnes of rice to nearly 4,500 disadvantaged students in Phu Tho province.
Hungry Philippine families fall to 9.8% in Q3
The latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that 9.8% of Philippine families experienced "involuntary" hunger at least once in the third quarter of 2023.
﷽ Binh Phuoc province helps more and more ethnic people escape poverty
The southeastern province of Binh Phuoc has earmarked 120.6 billion VND (5.1 million USD) this year for an annual programme to help 1,000 poor ethnic households escape poverty.
𒁃 President launches programme to give housing support to the poor in Dien Bien
President Vo Van Thuong on May 13 attended a ceremony to launch a programme to provide housing support to poor households in the northern province of Dien Bien, which aims to build 7,000-8,000 houses for the needy in the locality and some Northwestern provinces within one year.
🅠 Binh Phuoc province striving to support over 1,000 poor ethnic minority households
The provincial People’s Committee in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has approved funding of 120.6 billion VND (5.14 million USD) this year to support over 1,000 ethnic minority households to get out of poverty.
๊ Minister calls for donors’ housing support to poor, AO victims
Minister of Public Security General To Lam called on donors to continue joining hands to build houses for the poor and Agent Orange/dioxin (AO) victims, during the launch of a programme to give housing support to poor households and AO victims in the northern province of Hung Yen on March 13.
✅ Malaysia, Indonesia reach consensus on food security in Southeast Asia
Malaysian Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) chairman Tan Sri Idris Jusoh said the country and Indonesia have reached a resolution to reduce poverty in Southeast Asia and increase food security in the region, Bernama news agency reported.
ꦿ Long An province reduces poverty with efficient credit programme
The Mekong Delta province of Long An has taken effective measures to eradicate poverty.
⛦ Over 26 million Indonesian people live in poverty
Statistics Indonesia (BPS) has announced that as of September 2022, the number of poor people in the country had increased to 26.36 million people, making up 9.57% of the total population and up 0.03% compared to March 2022.
8.1 million poor people reported in Thailand
More than 8.1 million Thai people are poor, including 4.4 million living below the poverty line, according to the latest report by the Office of the National Economics and Social Development Council (NESDC).
🅠 Farmer Support Fund works as lever for economic development in Bac Ninh
Many farmer households in the northern province of Bac Ninh have benefited from soft loans to develop their production and increase income thanks to the support from the provincial Fund for Farmer Support.
༺ Pandemic pushes millions of Philippine people into poverty
About 2.3 million people in the Philippines were pushed into poverty between 2018 and 2021, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
🀅 Son La border guards helping local people escape from poverty
Over recent years, in addition to protecting border security, the young soldiers of Son La Province’s Border Guard have also conducted programmes to improve local people’s living standards.
꧋ Ten million more people benefit from new poverty reduction policies
With the new multi-dimensional poverty line approved last year, the near poor and poor household rate in Vietnam increases from 5.2% in 2020 to 9.35% this year, meaning an additional 10 million people to benefit from the Government’s social protection and poverty reduction policies and programmes in 2021-2025 period.
🥃 Peach blossoms helping improve Hoa Binh farmers’ incomes
Peach blossoms have added a certain charm to the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh in the spring-time, while generating stable incomes and helping local farmers escape from poverty.
♓ Policy credit capital helps people get out of poverty
With effective implementation of the lending programme, over the past 19 years, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has become an effective tool in realising emergency credit policies, contributing to the country's poverty reduction cause.