From the early 1990s to 2005, poverty (6) _____ from about 50 percent to 29 percent of the population.

…concentrations of  poverty remained in (10) _____ rural areas, particularly the northwest, north-central coast, and central highlands.

(9) _____ contrast, …..

In general, rural areas also made progress, as rural households (8) _____ in poverty declined from 66 percent of the total in 1993 to 36 percent in 2002.

However, progress varied geographically, with most prosperity concentrated in urban areas, (7) _____ in and around Ho Chi Minh City.

More than 30,000 private businesses had been (5) _____, and the economy was growing at an annual rate of more than 7 percent

By the late 1990s, the success of the business and agricultural (4) _____ ushered in under Doi Moi was evident.