After attending a South-South experience-sharing event in China, a number of African officials wondered: "How come China is able to develop and retain its implementation capacity, whereas our countries suffer from brain-drain?"

The rapid growth over the past three decades has been instrumental in lifting over 600 million people in China out of poverty. International evidence has made it clear that a global economy based on current pattern of consumption and production is simply not sustainable. Policymakers have been...

During the 1990s, China's poverty declined significantly across a wide range of poverty lines. China's poor have benefited much less from economic growth than the rich. Education is positively and significantly related to growth and poverty reduction - but the regional disparities of education...