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Over 124,000 Soc Trang households lift from poverty
(VBSP News) Over 124,000 households in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang have escaped poverty thanks to VBSP's inclusive finance over the past 15 years.
The information was released by Duong Dinh Lang, Director of the Soc Trang branch of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) at a conference reviewing the 15 years of implementing the Government’s Decree No.78/2002/ND-CP on credit for poor people and other beneficiaries of State preferential welfare policies and the bank’s operation.
The bank has provided preferential loans for over 471,000 poor households and welfare policy beneficiaries and 11 cooperatives, thus helping reduce the rate of poor households in the locality by over 2.5 percent annually and create jobs for over 123,000 labourers.
As of the end of August, the branch’s total capital exceeded 3 trillion VND (132.66 million USD) while outstanding loans totalled over 3 trillion VND. The rate of bad debt fell from 26.61 percent in 2002 to 6.67 percent.
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- Vietnam’s Experience in Agricultural Development
- Maintain policy credit transaction points
- Hung Yen is intensifying entrusted policy credit
- Strengthening cooperation between the Policy Bank of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP)
- Signing Task Assignment Minute between VBSP and VICEM
- VBSP PROGRESS REPORT - FIRST 6 MONTHS OF 2025
- Giving Tet gifts to the poor households and policy beneficiaries
- Results of Social Policy Credit Loan Scheme in implementing 03 National Target Programs (2020-2025)
- Ensuring Continuous Operations of VBSP to Best Serve the People
- Inspiring Stories on the Journey Out of Poverty
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