The poverty rate has dropped to about 7.8%

However, poverty reduction work still faces challenges such as unsustainable poverty reduction results and high rates of re-poverty.

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On the afternoon of September 24, the Committee on Social Affairs held a session to explain the allocation of resources and the mechanism for implementing poverty reduction policies. This is part of the National Assembly's supreme supervision program on hunger eradication and poverty reduction.

The report of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs on poverty reduction shows that over the years, the State's resources for poverty reduction have been very large, mainly focusing on rural and mountainous areas with difficult and especially difficult economic and social conditions.

Vietnam has reduced the poverty rate quite rapidly, millions of households have escaped poverty in the past 20 years. The poverty rate has decreased from 58% of the population in 1993 to about 7.8% today.

However, poverty reduction still faces challenges such as unsustainable poverty reduction results, high rate of re-poverty; nearly 50% of poor households are concentrated in ethnic minority areas, mountainous and remote areas, the number of poor households in urban areas also increases due to economic shocks...

Notably, the coordination and coordination between programs and policies related to poverty reduction of State management agencies and localities is not yet synchronous, leading to resources being spread out, overlapping, and policy integration not being effective, along with the difficulties of the economy in recent years, which have affected investment and mobilization of adequate resources for poverty reduction policies.

At the explanation session, Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen will clarify the causes of the above-mentioned problems and the Ministry's responsibility in this issue. At the same time, she will propose orientations for poverty reduction work in the coming time./.

According to VOV.VN -LY