The new five-year development plan for 2016-2020 explicitly targets reducing poverty among the 70 million people still below the poverty line through multiple mechanisms, including more effective rural development policies such as more active efforts to extend credit to rural areas. While it has been limited by poor governance capability and policy fragmentation, it has been able to make some progress in reducing poverty and improving a range of welfare indicators. The country has made progress expanding rural access to an improved w'ater source (70%) and building a relatively good road network compared to many other SSA countries.