As of June 13, the province had fully delivered on its 2025 plan to support the renovation or reconstruction of 2,208 homes.

Currently, the country’s national poverty rate stands at an average of 8.57%. The provinces with the highest numbers of people living in poverty are East Java, Central Java, and West Java, the minister said.

Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati on January 6 stated that this country experienced a significant decline in poverty rate in 2024.

Twenty-five years since UNESCO bestowed upon Hanoi the title of "City for Peace", the capital has undergone continuous developments, achieving notable successes and affirming itself as the nation’s major centre for administration, politics, economy, and culture.

The northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh has carried out an array of measures to ensure the livelihoods of local ethnic minority groups, thus enhancing the local living standards, under the national target programme for socioeconomic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas.

Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue had a working session with the Standing Board of the Party Committee of the southern province of Tay Ninh on January 3.

The National Office for Poverty Reduction has reported a multidimensional poverty rate of 2.93% at the end of 2023, indicating a 1.1 percentage point decrease.

Vietnam aims to reduce the poverty rate to about 0.9% by 2025, heard a national conference on November 17 to review the implementation of the National Target Programme for Sustainable Poverty Reduction for 2021-2025 held in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

Over the past 21 years, loan support from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has met the needs for capital of the poor and social policy beneficiaries across the country, contributing to the socio-economic development of localities.

Households of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum’s Ngoc Hoi district have seen progress in their material and spiritual well-being thanks to preferential loans through social policies.

The Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long is taking measures to promote the potentials of ethnic minority areas to develop them comprehensively and sustainably.

The poverty rate in Cambodia fell to 17.8% in 2020 from nearly 40% in 2009, an official has said.

A conference took place in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang on April 5, spotlighting the delta’s implementation of a national target programme for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for 2021-2025.

The Indonesian government aims to lift three million people out of extreme poverty by 2023, National Development Planning (PPN) Minister Suharso Monoarfa said.

The Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau targets a 0.3 percentage point reduction in the poverty rate this year, according to its Fatherland Front Committee.

The Vietnamese Government has issued a decree on new multidimensional poverty standards for the 2021-2025 period, which raises the income-based poverty threshold in both rural and urban areas.

The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau plans to reduce its poverty rate to 0.5 percent under national poverty standards by 2025.

The reign of COVID-19 in Vietnam has been watery and short-lived, in contrast to other countries like Italy or the United States thanks to an unique approach to testing, US-based Borgen Magazine said in a recent article.

Cambodia’s poverty rate could nearly double to 17.6 percent and unemployment could rise to 4.8 percent, according to a policy brief that assesses the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in Cambodia released by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) on October 8.

Indonesia saw the poverty rate rise to 9.78 percent in March from 9.22 percent last September, with 26.42 million people living below the poverty line as of March, according to Statistics Indonesia (BPS).