For the past five years, over 2.1 million households have escaped from poverty thanks to social policy credit, which is considered an important factor of the national target program for sustainable poverty reduction. 

Hunger linked to the Covid-19 outbreak could cause as many as 12,000 deaths per day by the end of the year, a new report from Oxfam has said on July 09.

The World Bank (WB) has predicted that the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) could help Vietnam’s GDP and exports grow 2.4 percent and 12 percent, respectively, by 2030, and bring 100,000 to 800,000 people out of poverty, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has reported.