level that the Peoples Republic of China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that …

In 2005, China participated for the first time in the International Comparison Program (ICP), which collects primary … implications of the new Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rate (derived by the ICP) for China's poverty rate (by international … China than past estimates, with about 15% of the population living in consumption poverty, implying about 130 million more …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for 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, and that …

The paper revisits the site of a large, World Bank-financed, rural development program in China 10 years after it began …

, a level that China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that growth slowdowns …