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

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than Africa as a whole. Within five … persisted due to failed and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, two … years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …