Millennium Development Goal Report

INTRODUCTION

Poverty a problem which related to Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 is a long time issue which has hunt the world.

Poverty reduction has been central to the World’s Bank missions for the past decades where just between 1990 and 2011 alone, according to the World Bank Group (2015) the number of people living in extreme poverty has halved to around one billion people which also accounts to 14.5 percent of the world’s population. Referring to the latter, an international poverty line of $1.25 a day has been set in order to monitor which corresponds to an average of the national poverty lines of the 15 poorest developing countries. Despite the great achievement made to rduce poverty in the past decades, recently effort aims to

Human Development Index (HDI) can be use as a summary measure for assessing long term progress in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. However in this essay, the author is going to focus only on the two areas, in particular (1) a long and healthy life; which measured by life expectancy as well as (2) standard of living; measured by Gross National Income (GNI) per capita expressed in constant 2011 international dollars converted using purchasing power parity (PPP) rates (UNDP, 2014).

CURRENT PROGRESS TOWARDS IMPROVING POVERTY CONDITION IN VIETNAM

Vietnam, is one of the developing countries which can be categorized under the medium human development category with their HDI value scoring 0. 638 (Which indicates that near to 1 is a good progress in HDI terms) in 2013, putting Vietnam in a position at 121 over 187 countries worldwide.

As evidenced from the table above (extracted from UNDP Human Development Report 2014) noticed that the HDI in Vietnam has increasingly improved by years: from HDI value of 0.463 in 1980 to recently 0.638 in the year 2013 respectively. Talk about life expectancy of Vietnam which is improving

In contrast, the standard of living, measured by GNI per capita in Vietnam had also improving evidently by referring to the above table, a total of increased in

Through its assistance and programmes, DCD has helped vulnerable people in the country such as providing pension schemes for the aged and the disabled, as well as soughting to reorient the poverty alleviation programmes by laying emphasis on opportunities for income generation, empowerment and security. The approach is to expand the capabilities of the poor through greater access to self-reliance, new skills, services and resources while encouraging and enhancing economic activities to support entrepreneurship and income generation (Brunei Darussalam Country Report, 2011).

Self-reliance Scheme introduced in June 2006, with objective to help alleviate the financial burdens and change the crutch mentality of welfare recipients to reducing their independence on welfare benefits to support their livelihood and by stimulating a culture of self-sustenance. The targeted