Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has … been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack … of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to Asia's success stories. Structural adjustment did not change the …

The present document examines the role of social and economic transformation in the process of poverty reduction in … China. China's economic growth and poverty reduction over the past 40 years are historically unprecedented both in speed and … regions of the World. The proportion of those living in poverty in rural areas fell from 97.5 percent to less than one percent …

-intensive growth in agriculture was initially the main driving force for rural Poverty Reduction, followed by the expansion of non-agriculture …Rural poverty in China fell from 96 percent in 1980 to less than 1 percent of the population in 2019. Using PovcalNet … data for China and a set of comparable countries, this paper estimates growth-poverty elasticities. It finds that China …

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