Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 社會工作系所 === 103 === As in many other developing countries, hunger and poverty in Vietnam has existed for a significant amount of time. Although economic reform has brought remarkable progress in poverty reduction, the scale and depth of ethnic minority poverty presents is one of the major challenges to achieve the targets for poverty reduction set out in the Socio-Economic Development Plan, as well as the Millennium Development Goals.
The purpose of this study was to identify the poverty situation, poverty causes of poor ethnic households in Vo Nhai district, Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam and then to make a clear understanding the role of government for poverty reduction, improving the quality of life of ethnic minority people was included. 33-items survey questionnaire were applied to conduct a survey with 204 subjects and 12 questions in-depth interview was answered with 8 subjects in order to identify the poverty situation, poverty causes characteristics and expression the role of government through poverty reduction policies.
The results of this study indicated that the lives of the poor ethnic households in some mountainous areas was face many difficulties and need more concern and helping from the government and society. The first, poverty situation of the poor ethnic households is very serious, which is expressed through income, employment, housing, health care and accessibility to public services. The second, this result shows that to understand the causes come from the individual and micro level or from the structural and macro level or from both levels in a combined way is an important issues to discuss. The third, Vietnam government has been promoting the role through some of effective policies and programs for poverty reduction and it’s also argued that future interventions need to be more ethnically responsive to the particular characteristics of individual ethnic groups. Particularly in the context of suggestion, this study is mention the role and impact of social worker for poverty reduction.
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