Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Until the 1990s, most of the Vietnamese population lived under the poverty line. [1] This was due to a number of reasons, which was a result from years as a French colony , [ 2 ] the Japanese occupation of Vietnam , [ 3 ] the Vietnam-American War , [ 4 ] and further conflicts within Mainland Southeast Asia (primarily the Cambodian-Vietnamese ...
The primary social issues in Vietnam are rural and child poverty. Vietnam scores 37.6 in the Gini coefficient index of wealth inequality, with the top 10% accounting for 30.2% of the nation's income and the bottom 10% receiving 3.2%. In 2008, 14% of the population lived below the national poverty line of US$1.15 per day. [1]
According to World Bank, "Poverty headcount ratio at a defined value a day is the percentage of the population living on less than that value a day at 2017 purchasing power adjusted prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions."
As of 2022, around 11% Vietnamese Americans lived below the poverty line, a rate similar to the 11.5% rate for the general U.S. population. [65] [66] This poverty rate has shown a gradual decline over recent years. In 2015, about 14.3% of Vietnamese Americans were living in poverty, [67] which decreased to 12% by 2019. [68]
Most of these half-American children were born of American soldiers and prostitutes. They were subject to discrimination, poverty, neglect, and abuse. On November 15, 2005, the United States and Vietnam signed an agreement allowing additional Vietnamese to immigrate who were not able to do so before the humanitarian program ended in 1994.
The New Economic Zones program (Vietnamese: Xây dựng các vùng kinh tế mới) was implemented by the communist Việt Cộng and Socialist Republic of Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon. Between 1975 and 1980, more than 1 million northerners migrated to the south and central regions formerly under the Republic of Vietnam. This program, in ...
In Vietnam, the term Việt Kiều is used to describe Vietnamese people living abroad, though it is not commonly adopted as a term of self-identification. [83] Instead, many overseas Vietnamese also use the terms Người Việt hải ngoại ("Overseas Vietnamese"), a neutral designation, or Người Việt tự do ("Free Vietnamese"), which carries a political connotation.
Poverty in Vietnam; C. Child labour in Vietnam This page was last edited on 13 May 2022, at 00:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...