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The National Target Program For Sustainable Poverty Reduction ( Ntp Pr )

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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 …show more content…

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

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