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 …

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 …

-based poverty program in the world, namely China's Di Bao program, which aims to assure a minimum income through means …

address these concerns in the context of China's Di Bao program, which uses means-tested transfers to try to assure that no …

The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant … development. The authors argue that the development paths of both China and India have been influenced by, and have generated …

While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and …

modeling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. The author presents case studies for China and Morocco. Both the macro and …

true value when there is correlated incidence heterogeneity. A case study for a large cash transfer program in China …

China is now the world's second largest economy, and it is expected to overtake the United States to become the largest … by 2020. What are the implications for the global environment and climate change if China surpasses the United States …? There are major concerns with China's rapid rise because its economic and industrial structure is increasingly dependent on …