Additional Poverty Reduction Budget Passed

The PM has nodded additional capital for the National Target Program on sustainable poverty reduction in 2016. Accordingly, the program will get over VND73.3 billion of budget in 2016. Ministries, agencies, and localities will get VND 59 billion to implement Program 30a; promote production; and duplicate poverty reduction models; and VND 14.3 billion to conduct the communication Project on poverty reduction. The Ministry of Finance was asked to verify report accuracy and inform supplementary expenditures to ministries, agencies, and sectors. (http://news.chinhphu.vn/ Aug 8)