VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister has approved a framework to implement a Government resolution on sustainable poverty reduction for the 2011-2020 period.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs will preside over the establishment of a national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction, including criteria to evaluate and monitor the work.

The PM authorised the Committee for Ethnic Minorities Affairs to devise special policies that support poor people and ethnic minority people in mountainous areas, as well as incentives to attract investment from corporate and non-government sectors.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment must propose principles, criteria and quotas allocating State budget capital, giving priority to disadvantaged areas.

The PM asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to develop support policies on agriculture, forestry and fisheries development, especially for poorer households and those under the poverty line.

The Ministry of Construction must build support policies on housing for poor families and those with low income in urban areas.

The State Bank of Vietnam must complete policies on production, trading and preferential credits for poorer households and those under the poverty line, ethnic minority people in disadvantaged areas, as well as for struggling students and pupils.

A fourth-quarter, 2012 deadline has been set for all these changes to be implemented.

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