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The poor are disproportionately likely to be from an ethnic minority. The percentage of households with heads coming from ethnic minorities increased from 17,8 percent in 1993 to 40,7 percent in 2008. [27] The poor have limited education: people who have not completed primary education account for the highest rate of poverty. [27]
The Vietnam Humanitarian Assistance and Evacuation Act of 1975 (H.R. 6096) was U.S. congressional legislation that proposed to designate financial resources for the evacuation and humanitarian aid of South Vietnam preceding the Fall of Saigon. The Act was not passed, however, it began the debate in Congress over how best to evacuate Vietnam and ...
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.
The World Bank Group is the globe’s most prestigious development lender, bankrolling hundreds of government projects each year in pursuit of its high-minded mission: to combat the scourge of poverty by backing new transit systems, power plants, dams and other projects it believes will help boost the fortunes of poor people. Read more »
This is a list of notable non-governmental organizations working in Vietnam or connected with Vietnam. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( August 2008 )
Following Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia, only Sweden continued to provide any significant amount of economic help. [2] Some multilateral assistance, such as that for development of the Mekong River, was made available by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, however. [ 2 ]
Caritas Việt Nam (or Caritas Vietnam) is a Catholic charitable organization in Vietnam. It is also known as the Commission on Charity and Social Actions (Ủy ban Bác ái Xã hội) of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam (CBCV). Caritas Việt Nam is a member of the global Caritas International confederation.
And yet Vietnam is a fast-growing economy, acclaimed as a "mini-China" for its manufacturing prowess. Per capita income is eight times higher than it was 20 years ago.