Vietnam is one of the first 30 countries in the world and the first in Asia to adopt the MPI to ensure a minimum living standard and address gaps in access to basic social services, aiming for comprehensive and inclusive support for the poor and those living in impoverished areas. It is also expected to help improve the quality of both their material and spiritual life.
Each year, the country allocates substantial resources to the work, with the funding mainly from the central budget, different economic sectors, and contributions from the "For the Poor" fund managed by all-level VFF Committees.
As a result, Vietnam’s per capita income has risen to about 4,650 USD from only 185 USD in 1993. Last year, its multidimensional poverty rate decreased by 1.1% to 2.93%. Additionally, 10 extremely disadvantaged coastal and island communes successfully got rid of poverty.
Rural economic and social infrastructure has seen remarkable improvements which give a facelift to the areas and contribute to promoting production and raising living standards there.
Once among the poorest countries in the world, Vietnam has over the past few decades transformed into one of the fastest-growing economies. From 1989 to 2023, its per capita GDP recorded a 40-fold increase. In two decades, more than 40 million people have been lifted out of poverty. Vietnam achieved the United Nations Millennium Development Goal on poverty reduction ahead of schedule, winning recognition from the international community as a global success story in poverty alleviation.
In April 2022, the World Bank, in its report "From the Last Mile to the Next Mile: Vietnam Poverty and Equity Assessment 2022", noted that the amount of progress that Vietnam has achieved in less than half a century since the war ended in 1975 has been nearly without parallel.

The economic and political problems caused by ethnic inequality are not limited to conflicts in Africa or the caste system in India. In most European countries, new migrants often work in insecure or even exploitative conditions, and in low-paid jobs that the native-born population may deem too lowly to perform – not a million years away from those Indian high castes who refuse to clean toilets.

Such ethnic inequalities will not simply go away by themselves, though it appears Treasury estimates for future UK economic growth assume they will. If inequalities persist at current levels, an 11% ethnic employment gap will amount to one million “missing” ethnic minority workers when ethnic minorities make up 30% of the UK population in 2051. This would be a significant drag on economic performance, with reduced tax contributions and increased benefit payments to an already ageing population. Policymakers are too complacent if they think inequalities will simply disappear with new generations of ethnic minorities.

As well as ensuring that education, training and policies such as apprenticeships actually reduce ethnic inequalities, European governments should also take the lead in their own employment policies and public pronouncements. They should do more to listen to and encourage employers to hire a diverse range of skills and experiences, and consider putting targets for ethnic minority representation on boards, something that has proven successful in the case of gender. It’s important to recognise the benefits of positive discrimination in the labour market, rather than view legislation to combat inequality as red tape or political correctness.

Ethnic inequality is a problem that affects developing and developed nations, albeit in different ways, and policymakers everywhere must do much more to tackle it. Global economic growth and the stability of our democracies depend on it.

The increasingly young crime is no longer the story of the authorities alone, but it is the story of each family, society and the youth themselves. Just because of a moment of not being able to control oneself, the consequences behind each case are always tears, pain... and that pain will be even greater when the perpetrators are just boys and girls who have just started their lives and lost their future, their youth... This reality requires solutions soon, education, prevent and stop the current trend of juvenile crime.