The accomplishment was recorded in the Government’s 2012 socio-economic task implementation report, submitted to the NA’s Standing Committee on May 14.

The good results are attributable to the comprehensive measures undertaken by the Government, ministries, departments, and localities.

Official bodies have promulgated policies supporting disadvantaged households and invested extra effort in both the national sustainable poverty reduction programme as well as in international projects aiming to raise poor people’s living conditions.

Deputy Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs Minister Nguyen Thanh Hoa said that although the state budget is under significant fiscal pressure, the Party and State always reserves sufficient funding for its poverty reduction programmes.

Other social welfare targets—including supporting jobseekers and assisting the families of social welfare beneficiaries—continue to receive the Government’s special attention.

The NA’s overall 2013 poverty reduction target is two percent, the same as in 2012, with a four percent reduction target in poor districts.

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