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Submitted by ctv_en_8 on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 11:50
Ho Chi Minh City has set a target of having no poor household by the end of 2008, two years earlier than scheduled after the resolution of the eighth congress of the city’s party members.

Thousands of local households have escaped poverty under the city’s poverty reduction programme over the past 16 years.

In April 2008, the city had nearly 17,000 households under the poverty line of VND6 million per capita annually, making up 1.37 percent of the city’s population.

The Chairman of the Municipal People’s Committee, Le Hoang Quan, has also decided to raise the city’s poverty line for the 2009-2015 period. Accordingly, a citizen living inside the city will no longer be considered poor if he or she earns VND12 million or more per year. The figure for those living in the outskirts of the city is VND10 million or more.

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