Increasing poverty line, number of poor households increased by 50%
The number of poor households nationwide has increased to 1 million, an increase of 50% after the poverty line was adjusted from an income of VND200,000/person/month to VND400,000/person/month in rural areas and VND260,000/person/month to VND500,000/person/month in urban areas.
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Mr. Ngo Truong Thi, Deputy Director of the Department of Social Protection, said that the final results of the general survey of poor and near-poor households nationwide, according to the poverty standards for the period 2011 - 2015, showed that the number of poor households nationwide is currently 3,055,566 households, the number of near-poor households is 1,612,181 households.
Meanwhile, the results announced by the General Statistics Office at the end of 2010 showed that the number of poor households nationwide was nearly 2 million. Thus, after the poverty line was increased, the number of poor households increased by 1 million, equivalent to an increase of 50%.
It is known that from 2011, the poverty line will be adjusted annually depending on the actual cost of people's minimum needs. Experts in this field believe that the annual adjustment will help the number of poor households to reflect reality and be most accurate.
According to VnEconomy
