China has seen a huge reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty since the economic reforms that started in the late … China´s growth mattered to poverty reduction using a new provincial panel data set constructed for this purpose. The … unevenness, that handicapped poverty reduction. Yes, China has had great success in reducing poverty through economic growth, but …

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, two …

Brazil, China, and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying degrees and for different … reasons. History left China with favorable initial conditions for rapid poverty reduction through market-led economic growth … growth. In the wake of its steep rise in inequality, China might learn from Brazil's success with such policies. India needs …

In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China's Dibao program aims to fill all poverty …

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 …

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

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

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

-poor growth in an economy. An application is provided using data for China in the 1990s.It is important to know how aggregate … consistent with the Watts index for the level of poverty.The authors give examples using survey data for China during the 1990s …. Over 1990-99, the ordinary growth rate of household income per capita in China was 7 percent a year. The growth rate by …