FOCUS: VIETNAMVietnam: Searching for long lasting peace and ethnic equality by SEACSN Vietnam.

 FOCUS: VIETNAM Vietnam: Searching for long lasting peace and ethnic equality by SEACSN Vietnam

 Over the last few years, implementing the programme on hunger eradication and poverty reduction, Vietnam has gained two main important achievements:

 First, there has been a remarkable reduction in poverty nationwide, from 25% in the Northeast of Vietnam and around 40% in the Northwest, the Central region and the South down to 11% in the whole country.

 Second, the growth rate in the mountainous, remote and distant regions has been increased to 8-10% per annum, roughly or rather higher than the common development growth rate of the entire country.

 In summary, there have been disparities between majority and minority in Vietnam due to her geography, customs and practices, people’s educational levels, population growth and bad impacts of the market economy. Over more than the last 55 years, Vietnam has made many efforts to implement the programme on hunger elimination and poverty alleviation, to narrow down the development gap between majority and minority. The achievements recorded by Vietnam bear great significance in economic, social, security and defence respects. That result is from the strong resolve of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Vietnam government, active participation of the people, sectors, localities and the assistance of other countries and international organizations.

 (Endnotes)

 1 Ha Que Lam,

 Xoa doi giam ngheo o vung dan toc thieu so nuoc ta hien nay-thuc trang va giai phap

 (Hunger elimination and poverty alleviation in Vietnam

 ’s ethnic groups: Present situation and solution). National Politics Publishing House, Hanoi, 2002, p. 61.

 2 Communist Party of Vietnam,

 The Document of the Ninth National Congress of the Party

 . The National Politics Publishing House, 2001, p. 94.

 3 The 1992 Constitution, Article 5, the 4th paragraph

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