Analysis of the National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction (NTP-PR)
The NTP-PR has contributed substantially to the reduction of poverty in Vietnam. Between 2006-2010 the program gave out 6.2 million preferential loans, and between 2007-2009 the program provided vocational training to roughly 100,000 poor workers, resulting in roughly 60 percent of those trained gaining employment or becoming self-employed. Between 2006-2010, 10 million students received total exemption of tuition, and 2.8 million impoverished ethnic minority children received free textbooks for school. What is more, an estimated 62 million individuals, 90 percent of whom were poor, received free health insurance cards in the same five-year period. The
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The rationale of focusing on education is that, as demonstrated by Banerjee and Duflo’s work, improving education tends to create numerous positive externalities manifest both in health outcomes and in national economic growth.
Policy 1: Implement a CCT program to increase school attendance among the rural poor.
You should implement a CCT program, based on Columbia’s successful Familias en Acción, in towns with fewer than 100,000 people, with strict conditions placed on both participating towns and families. First, towns must contain educational and health infrastructure to support individuals to meet the conditions of the program detailed. Towns also must include a bank, and an official with whom the central government can communicate. Second, parents must bring participating children to regular development check-ups, enabled by the health infrastructure mentioned above. Moreover, school-aged children must attend 80 percent of classes for the household to receive an additional monthly transfer.
Transfers should be based on estimates of basic nutritional costs per person in each of the qualifying towns. Additional education transfers should be based on a fraction of this initial nutritional transfer, commensurate with the costs of living in each town.
Under this program, household consumption will increase, school attendance will increase, and healthcare check-ups will
The program was intended to help cities build schools and provide healthcare and job training.
Education is closely tied to socioeconomic status, and effective education for children and lifelong learning for adults are key contributors to health and prosperity for individuals, and for the country. Education contributes to health and prosperity by equipping people with knowledge and skills for problem solving, and helps provide a sense of control and mastery over life circumstances. It increases
Lastly, education improves the individual by fostering attitudes of self reliance and cooperation. By acquiring knowledge, experience in working with groups and alone, practice solving different types of dilemmas, writing reports and a multitude of other skills students’ minds are stimulated. Education
The role of education in society has proven to service the people through the spreading of information, teaching of lessons and simply giving the gift of knowledge. With the gift of knowledge, we ultimately give the other the right and the ability, more importantly, to make their own informed choices. An educated mind can go beyond the limits set out by society and can make wise decisions regarding their health, success and general well being by simply using rationale. The level of education one obtains is directly related to the health of that individual, whereby it determines the person’s quality of life and life expectancy. Further more, one may be lead to believe that education is the most
The overview of these three programs and attaining them is optimal, essentially a cycle of opportunity. By providing these services it develops a base for a long-term goal of achieving self-sufficiency and out of poverty. However, the accessibility of these beneficial resources may be difficult to obtain based on eligibility. New ideas that may help improve or reduce disparities in future programs can begin by concentrating on and expanding educational resources. For instance, a program that holds educational sessions on a monthly base, targeting communities, informing families of available resources and assisting with the application process. Another idea would be collaborating with the school system, specifically low-income based communities. After school program can be initiated to target parents that need assistance with extra resources and services. Lastly, innovating a classroom setting program for the duration of one-year, furthering educational and leadership ability for
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The effect of this is generally children will have better health and will not need to use money from the health insurance company.
From 1996 to 2011, poverty was on the rise in U.S households with children. A means-tested transfer program will be utilized to discuss the findings. The World Bank defined “Extreme poverty” as global poverty: a person which only earns about $2.00 dollars per day. By using 1996 to 2008 information that was provided by Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), it was estimated by mid-2011, on any given month, about 1.65 million households were living in conditions that were considered to be extreme poverty with 3.55 million being children and this is based on the cash income. In households where children lived with non-elderly parents, accounted for 4.3 percent. Since 1996 extreme poverty has sharply risen, because of the 1996 welfare
The U.S. is highly respected and is always associated with greatness. The illusion of prosperity overshadows a critical issue which is often ignored and that issue is poverty. In 2014, there were about 47 million people in America living in poverty, 16 million being children. What exactly is poverty? The state or condition of having a little or no money, goods, or means of support. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, it is less than $11,770 for one individual and $24,250 for a family of four. . Poverty is very important, our main goal is to end poverty but unfortunately over the years it has not been successful. So, our purpose is to at least lower the high numbers in statistics. To get out of poverty, America needs
was seen as a program that countered poverty and a program that encouraged individuals to
The cash component itself it is very important regarding the CCT’s outcome on children especially the ones living in extreme poverty. First of all the additional cash to the family allows the household to have better purchasing power and therefore, gives the family the ability to buy medicines, better quality food, spend more money on school and health materials. By meeting the basic needs for human survival there is a reduced likelihood that a child will be exposed to infection or malnutrition. The Cash transfers also provide cognitive stimulation to the
Education can bring these individual talents to the surface. Having these talents developed by the way of the educational system, a person is more likely to become a productive member of society. Without these gifts and talents of individuals, answers in the medical, environmental, and social fields could remain mute and unexplored. Education has the responsibilities to bring out the best in each individual. The needs of society are continually changing. Therefore, education must also continue to change in order to productive responsible members of society.
When we attack poverty on many levels, bringing together aid and education, community and economic development, and bringing empowerment to individuals, women and children, then we can begin to see real change in the communities and society. However, society is strutted in such a way that not all
Objective 1.2 - To advocate on the implementation of anti-poverty action plan (youth to have access to government funding other than donor funding).
This section discusses the approaches used in augmenting the conventional household income accounts with incomes from CF, how these incomes do influence rural poverty and level of income inequality.