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 …

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