Ravallion, Martin - In: World Development 37 (2009) 2, pp. 303-313
Summary At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than Africa as a whole …. Within five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme … poverty persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not …