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The poverty line in the period 2021-2025 is expected to be 1.5 million VND / person / month for rural areas and 2 million VND per month in urban areas.
On the afternoon of December 29, at the ordinary government meeting in December, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc agreed on the policy of promulgating the multidimensional national poverty line for the period 2021-2025.
Since 1993, Vietnam has established seven national poverty lines. The development of the national multidimensional poverty line in the period 2021-2025 is the basis for a more precise and comprehensive identification and identification of poor households, multidimensional almost poor households, according to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The new national multidimensional poverty line is also the basis for formulating policies, mechanisms and solutions to achieve multidimensional and sustainable poverty reduction. Multidimensional poverty measures include income and access to basic social services.
At the government’s conference with localities the same morning, the Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, Dao Ngoc Dung, said that the time to apply the new rule is when wage reforms are carried out.
The criteria for measuring multidimensional poverty applied in the 2016-2020 period include income and the degree of deprivation in access to basic social services. The 10 indicators that measure the level of lack of basic social services include: Access to health services; Health insurance; level of adult education; the child’s school attendance; quality of housing; per capita housing area; domestic water source; hygienic latrines; use telecommunications services; assets for access to information.
The poverty line in rural areas is 700,000 VND / person / month; 900,000 VND / person / month for urban areas; lack of 3 or more measurement indicators. Near-poor households in rural areas have a per capita income per million VND; 1.3 million VND in the urban area; Another criterion is the lack of 3 or more measurement indicators.
In the period 2016-2019, Vietnam had more than 6 million people out of poverty and 2 million people out of poverty. In 2020, the entire country is expected to have only 2.75% of poor households.
