Poverty reduction goal achieved, FAO says
VGP – Viet Nam has been one of the leading countries in the world to complete its targets of poverty reduction, according to the report of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on June 12.
As many as 38 countries have completed the foresaid targets, including the reduction of a half of the poor previously scheduled by 2015. Viet Nam accomplished its targets of reducing 50% of hungry people in the 1990-1992 and 2010-2012 period.
FAO General Director FAO José Graziano da Silva highly appreciated the foresaid success; concurrently, affirmed that with such success, countries have oriented to a better future. The success is the proof of powerful political will and close coordination and cooperation in the policy of poverty reduction. The poverty has been reduced quickly and sustainably.
The FAO General Director said that FAO would organize a ceremony to glory 38 countries in Rome, Italy on June 16.
According to FAO statistics, although the number of global poor and hungry people has reduced over the last decade, still 870 million people have lacked foods and other millions of people included children have lacked vitamins and minerals.
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) call upon countries to reduce the percentage of people whose average income is under US$1.25 a day, and increase the creation of jobs for low-income people.
By Ngoc Van
