Poverty
in Vietnam - Definition, Indicator and Solutions
Definition: According to our group’s discussion, poverty
in Vietnam is a situation in which people do not enjoy the basic human needs in
education, healthcare services and nutrition.
- Lack of development in physical infrastructure and public service in the majority of the poor live in rural, isolated, mountainous or disaster prone areas
- Limited access to credit
- Limited education
- Rural households consisting of only women and children are particularly vulnerable to poverty because the number of dependents is relatively high compared with the available labor force. ("Vietnam Poverty Analysis". Australian Government. May 9, 2002. Retrieved March 6, 2012.)
Based on our definition about poverty, our group measures
the poverty in Vietnam with Multidimensional
Poverty Index (MPI) by analyzing in three fields (Health, Education and
Living Standard) combining with gender perspective.
In
Vietnam, the more vulnerable group of poverty is women group. Data from the World Bank (2013) has shown that the
percentage of women who completed the secondary education is 59.4 %, in contract male percentage is 71.2%. Moreover, the share of number of
women as the Member of Parliament is only 24.4%
(term 2011-2016). The maternal motility rate is only 59%in 2013. Thus, our group
searches the following possible solutions to reduce poverty and enhance women
lives.
Solutions:
Ø Providing micro credit directly to women
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Micro credit is one of the possible solutions because women can get extra
income from it and they can get more opportunities to connect with others as a
result.
Ø Capacity building ( training, awareness raising, etc.)
for women
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Women can get more skills, become more self-confidence, and get more
knowledge from different type of training.
Ø Providing infrastructure and public service (especially for women)
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For instant, government policy should be target to gender equity in
education sector. It should be defined equal percentage of male and female can
access free education for labor force because the number of female population
in Vietnam is more than male.
To reduce poverty in Vietnam, in sum, Government should implement the
current program successfully plus it should focus on the gender equity, women
empowerment and women participation in decision making level because women are
also human resource which can be used in the poverty reduction.
