Poverty

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.

Causes of poverty in Vietnam:

• 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:

1. Providing micro credit directly to women
1. 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.
2. Capacity building ( training, awareness raising, etc.) for  women
1. Women can get more skills, become more self-confidence, and get more knowledge from different type of training.
3. Providing infrastructure and public service (especially for women)
1. 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.

Group Member: 

1.  Aye Chan Myae  (st116970)
2.  Nikita Shakya (st116512)
3. Le Nguyen Lan Chi (st116497)
4. Ying Lwin ( st116510) 

  

 

 

 

 

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