We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are … decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income … configurations differ depending on the marital status of the children. Poverty rates are higher in case of cohabiting with unmarried …

poverty reduction adopted by the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea. China is almost as well-off today as the … United States was in 1960, Japan in 1980, and South Korea in 2000, when they reached high-income. China’s poverty reduction … strategy is quite different from the approaches adopted by these countries. Relatedly, China’s performance in reducing poverty …