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 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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Main Authors:	Swinkels, Rob, Turk, Carrie
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2003-01
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, ANALYTICAL WORK, BASIC EDUCATION, BUSINESS CLIMATE, CITIZENS, CIVIL SOCIETY, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, CLEAN WATER, CLIMATE, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, CONDOMS, CORRUPTION, COUNTRY CONTEXT, CRISES, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, DONOR COMMUNITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, ENTERPRISE SURVEYS, ETHNIC GROUPS, ETHNIC MINORITIES, EXPENDITURES, EXTREME POVERTY, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, GENDER EQUITY, GINI INDEX, GIRLS, GLOBAL ECONOMY, GOOD GOVERNANCE, GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES, GOVERNANCE REFORM, GOVERNANCE REFORMS, GROWTH RATE, HEALTH, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH CENTER, HEALTH INDICATORS, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH STATUS, HEALTH SURVEYS, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, ILLITERACY, IMMUNODEFICIENCY, IMPACT ASSESSMENT, INCOME, INCOME LEVELS, INEQUALITY, INFANT MORTALITY, INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, LITERACY RATES, LIVING STANDARD, LIVING STANDARDS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, LOCAL LEVEL, LOCALIZED INDICATORS, MACROECONOMIC POLICY, MALARIA, MALNUTRITION, MANAGERS, MARKET ECONOMY, MATERIAL WELL-BEING, MEDIUM TERM, MIGRANTS, MORTALITY, NATIONAL LEVEL, NATIONAL LEVELS, NATURAL RESOURCES, NEEDS ASSESSMENT, NUTRITION, PARENTS, PARTICIPATORY POVERTY, PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENTS, PARTNERSHIP, POLICY MEASURES, POLICY RESEARCH, POOR AREAS, POOR HOUSEHOLDS, POVERTY ANALYSIS, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY OUTCOMES, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, POVERTY STATUS, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIME MINISTER, PRIVATE SECTOR, PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT, PRIVATE SECTORS, PRO-POOR, PROCESS INDICATORS, PUBLIC ACTION, PUBLIC ACTIONS, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC HEALTH, PUBLIC INVESTMENT, PUBLIC RESOURCES, PUBLIC SERVICE, PUBLIC SERVICES, PUBLIC SPENDING, QUALITATIVE INFORMATION, QUALITATIVE RESEARCH, RADIO, REDUCED POVERTY, REDUCING POVERTY, REFORM PROGRAM, REFORM PROGRAMS, REGIONAL DISPARITIES, RESEARCH INSTITUTES, RURAL HOUSEHOLDS, RURAL PEOPLE, RURAL POOR, RURAL POPULATION, SCHOOL CURRICULA, SECONDARY ENROLLMENT, SECONDARY ENROLLMENT RATES, SERVICE DELIVERY, SERVICE PROVIDERS, SEVERE POVERTY, SOCIAL INDICATORS, SOCIAL OUTCOMES, SOCIAL PROTECTION, SOCIAL SERVICES, STRUCTURAL POLICIES, STRUCTURAL REFORM, TELEVISION, THEMATIC AREAS, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, TRANSPARENCY, URBAN AREAS, URBAN POPULATION, VIOLENCE STRATEGIC PLANNING, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES, DEVELOPMENT PLANS, EQUITY, EDUCATIONAL FEES, AFFORDABILITY, ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE, ACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICES, PUBLIC EXPENDITURES, NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, VIOLENCE,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/2138050/strategic-planning-poverty-reduction-vietnam-progress-challenges-meeting-localized-millennium-development-goals https://hdl.handle.net/10986/19190
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