This MDP Report for 2021 is a joint research product of the Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), Committee for Ethnic Affairs (CEMA), General Statistics Office (GSO), and the United Nations Development Programme in Viet Nam (UNDP Viet Nam), co-financed by the DFAT-GREAT program and conducted by Centre for Analysis and Forecasting, Vietnam Academy for Social Science (CAF/VASS).

The Report provides a detailed analysis of productive employment, basic social services, and social protection for all as key pathways to sustaining Vietnam’s multidimensional poverty reduction achievements. In Viet Nam, productive employment increased substantially in the past ten years.

The report proposes recommendations for sustaining rapid reduction of poverty in all dimensions and throughout Vietnam along three pathways: (i) promoting broad-based growth and inclusive development through productive employment, (ii) improving delivery of quality social services, and (iii) enhancing resilience through expansion of social protection, particularly the adoption of digital technology in registration and payment.