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  1. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    March, 2009
    China, Eastern Asia, Asia, Oceania

    China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this vast nation of 1.3 billion people has achieved in so little time. In terms of a wide range of indicators, the progress has been remarkable. Poverty in terms of income and consumption has been dramatically reduced. Progress has also been substantial in terms of human development indicators. Most of the millennium development goals have either already been achieved or the country is well on the way to achieving them.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    June, 2009
    China, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Capitalizing on the most recent estimates of agricultural price distortions in China and in other countries, this paper assesses the economic and poverty impact of global and domestic trade reform in China. It also examines the interplay between the trade reforms and factor market reforms aimed at improving the allocation of labor within the Chinese economy. The results suggest that trade reforms in the rest of the world, land reform and hukou reform all serve to reduce poverty, while unilateral trade reforms result in a small poverty increase.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    September, 2008
    Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    The story of agricultural policy in Northeast Asia over the past 50 years illustrates the dramatic changes that can occur in distortions to agricultural incentives faced by producers and consumers at different stages of economic development.

  4. Library Resource

    Findings from Focus Group Discussions

    Training Resources & Tools
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2011
    Mongolia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Mongolia was hit hard by the global economic recession, notably the fall in commodity prices. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 1.6 percent in 2009 after growth of 8.9 percent in 2008. The country is narrowly specialized in production of a few primary goods with minerals comprising 70 percent of total exports. Since mid-2008, the prices of main export goods, including copper, zinc, crude petroleum, combed goat-down and cashmere dropped by close to or more than 50 percent, though prices of coal and gold held strong.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2000
    Bangladesh, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, El Salvador, Brazil, Ghana, China, Indonesia, Jamaica, Peru, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Thailand, Honduras, Asia, Americas
  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    China

    Nonfarm activity plays an increasingly important role in rural household income. Based on data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning, the authors study the distribution of nonfarm income in rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an exogenous transfer to total income to decompose the Gini index. Second, they assume nonfarm income as a potential substitute for farm income to take household choices into account and simulate household income.

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    China

    China has been the most rapidly growing
    economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has
    fueled a remarkable increase in per capita income and a
    decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning
    of reform to 10 percent in 2004. At the same time, however,
    different kinds of disparities have increased. Income
    inequality has risen, propelled by the rural-urban income
    gap and by the growing disparity between highly educated

  8. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Africa, China

    At the outset of China's reform
    period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for
    Africa as a whole. Within five years that was no longer
    true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a
    situation in which extreme poverty persisted due to failed
    and unpopular policies. While acknowledging that Africa
    faces constraints that China did not, and that context
    matters, two lessons stand out. The first is the importance

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    China

    China's progress in poverty
    reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot
    fail to be impressed by what this vast nation of 1.3 billion
    people has achieved in so little time. In terms of a wide
    range of indicators, the progress has been remarkable.
    Poverty in terms of income and consumption has been
    dramatically reduced. Progress has also been substantial in
    terms of human development indicators. Most of the

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    China

    China's progress in poverty
    reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot
    fail to be impressed by what this vast nation of 1.3 billion
    people has achieved in so little time. In terms of a wide
    range of indicators, the progress has been remarkable.
    Poverty in terms of income and consumption has been
    dramatically reduced. Progress has also been substantial in
    terms of human development indicators. Most of the

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