China's change to a new model of growth, now called the 'new normal', was always going to be hard. Events over the past year show how hard it is. The attempts to moderate the extremes of high investment and low consumption, the correction of overcapacity in the heavy industries that were the...

Introduction -- Trade liberalisation, economic growth and poverty in a global setting -- Trade liberalisation and poverty in Vietnam -- Trade and growth elasticity of poverty -- Farm households' perceptions of agricultural market and policy -- Rural poverty and employment -- Urban poverty and...