Strategic Planning for Poverty Reduction in Vietnam : Progress and Challenges for Meeting the Localized Millennium Development Goals
This paper discusses the progress that Vietnam has made toward meeting a core set of development goals that the government recently adopted as part of its Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy (CPRGS). These goals are strongly related...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2138050/strategic-planning-poverty-reduction-vietnam-progress-challenges-meeting-localized-millennium-development-goals http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19190 |
| Summary: | This paper discusses the progress that
Vietnam has made toward meeting a core set of development
goals that the government recently adopted as part of its
Comprehensive Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy (CPRGS).
These goals are strongly related to the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), but are adapted and expanded to
reflect Vietnam's national challenges and the
government's ambitious development plans. For each
Vietnam Development Goal, the authors describe recent trends
in relation to the trajectories implied by the MDGs, outline
the intermediate targets identified by the government, and
discuss the challenges involved in meeting these. Relative
to other countries of similar per capita expenditures,
Vietnam has made rapid progress in a number of key areas.
Poverty has halved over the 1990s, enrollment rates in
primary education have risen to 91 percent (although there
is a quality problem), indicators of gender equity have been
strengthened, child mortality has been reduced, maternal
health has improved, and real progress has been made in
combating malaria and other communicable diseases. In
contrast, Vietnam scores worse than other comparable
countries in the areas of child malnutrition, access to
clean water, and combating HIV/AIDS. A number of important
crosscutting issues emerge from this analysis that need to
be addressed. One such challenge is improving equity, both
in terms of ensuring that the benefits of growth are
distributed evenly across the population and in terms of
access to public services. This will involve addressing the
affordability of education and curative health care for poor
households. Improvements in public expenditure planning are
needed to align resources better to stated desired outcomes
and to link nationally-defined targets to subnational
planning and budgeting processes. There is also a need to
address capacity and data gaps which will be crucial for
effective monitoring. |
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