Vietnam to spend $3.3 bln on poverty reduction plan

Children carry baskets of flowers as props for tourists to take photographs for money in Ha Giang's Dong Van District. Photo by VnExpress/Hong Chieu

Vietnam will spend VND75 trillion ($3.3 billion) on a five year (2021-2025) poverty reduction program that has been approved by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

The national program proposed by the social affairs ministry will focus on reducing poverty, preventing people from falling into poverty and helping poor people gain better access to social services.

VND48 trillion ($2.1 billion) of the plan’s outlay would be drawn from the national budget, VND12.7 trillion from local budgets, and the rest from other sources.

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