The Prime Minister agrees to issue a poverty line for the period 2021 – 2025



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The Prime Minister agrees to issue the poverty line for the period 2021 - 2025 - Photo 1.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc agrees to issue the poverty standard for the 2021-2025 period at the ordinary government meeting in December 2020 – Photo: VGP / Quang Hieu

To achieve the poverty reduction goal, since 1993, Vietnam has issued seven times the national poverty line.

The national multidimensional poverty line in the period 2021 – 2025 is the basis for a more accurate and complete identification and identification of poor households, near-poor multidimensional households and other beneficiaries of poverty reduction policies and programs. national social security.

National multidimensional poverty line for the period 2021 – 2025 cThere are 2 criteria to identify poor households, near poor households and households with average living standards, which are income criteria and criteria on the level of lack of basic social services (including 12 indicators: nutrition, maintenance of health insurance, adult education; children’s schooling; quality of housing; housing area per capita; water source; hygienic toilets; use of long distance information services; means of access to information; employment; dependents in the home).

Specifically, in the period from 2021 to 2025, poor households in rural areas are those with per capita income per month below VND 1.5 million and deprived of 3 indicators that measure epidemic deficiency. basic social services or more.

In urban areas, the household has a per capita income of less than 2 million dong / month and presents 3 indicators that measure deprivation of basic social services or more.

Nearly poor households are those with an average income of 1.5 million VND (rural) – 2 million VND (urban) and private with less than 3 indicators that measure the level of lack of basic social services.

The impact evaluation report of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said that, with the new poverty line in the new period 2021 – 2025, there will be about 16.6% of households with incomes below the poverty line (almost 4.5 million households, corresponding to more than 17 million people), of which the poverty rate is 10.83% (including the 2% of “chronically” poor households that are subject to social protection ) and 5.77% are almost poor.

The new poverty line will double The new poverty line will double

TTO – The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs is consulting the ministries about a new poverty line, applicable from 2021 to 2025. The number of poor households across the country is expected to increase by almost 2.5 times now; The proportion of poor and near-poor households represents 16% of the population.

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