Poverty in children Recently, Vietnam has built multidimensional calculation method for measuring poverty among children. This method is based on a number of factors about the poor including education, health, nutrition, shelter, clean water and sanitation, child labour, recreation, social inclusion and protection of children. This new method is applied to the data from the household survey in 2008 showed that about one third of children under the age of 16 as children nghèo2. This number includes about 7 million children or poverty rate among children is 28.9%. According to this multi-dimensional poverty rates among children are children living in rural areas, children of ethnic minorities and children living in the North and the Mekong River Delta. The Mekong Delta region has the highest poverty rate (52.8 percent) Poverty in urban areas Rapid urbanization and migration from the countryside to the big cities in the last few years has increased the pressure on poverty reduction in urban areas. Poverty in urban areas is different in essence from the rural poor. It affects different population groups (such as immigrants, non-homes and street children) and are expressed in various forms (e.g. failing to ensure housing, clean water and hygiene criteria and likely highly contaminated). Therefore, the need to have different strategies to address urban poverty
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