Ana Lugo, Maria; Raiser, Martin; Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2022
China. China's economic growth and poverty reduction over the past 40 years are historically unprecedented both in speed and … scale. Between 1978 and 2018 China's economy grew at an annual rate of 9.5 percent, twice as fast as the other developing … over this period. There are 765 million fewer poor people in China in 2019 than they were in 1980. This means that China …