Over the past four decades of reform and opening-up, China has basically eradicated hunger and lifted over 700 million rural people out of poverty. China's poverty incidence has dropped to about 3%. These achie
India has seen enormous reductions in poverty in the past few decades. However, much of this progress has been unequal throughout the country. This paper examined the 2019–2021 National Family Health Survey to examine small area variations in four measures of household poverty. Overall, the resu...
Economic growth has accounted for 60% of poverty reduction in Asia (Hamid and Villareal 2001, pp. 237– 239). Complementing these efforts have been major advances made by NGOs (non-governmental organizations) to work in concert with government bodies to improve the livelihood of the urban poor...
Since 1995, all provinces in China have adopted universal salt iodization as the main measure for preventing iodine deficiency [42]. We found that the disease burdens of four nutritional deficiencies among children were negatively correlated with the SDI and HAQ scores, which may be explained by ...
The relentless precipitation, lasting from early June to mid-July, produced frequent heavy downpours that triggered severe flooding and tragically resulted in deaths within China. Extensive research has been conducted on the causes and evolution of the Meiyu season; nevertheless, the accuracy of ...
that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. To return to the agricultural past, as some thinkers about the beginning of the twentieth century dreamed of doing, was...
When I took my first serious steps into China, it appeared to me in much the same way. A giant mass. Where do I begin? I could liken myself to the parable of the five men, each with a missing sense, attempting to describe an elephant. “Towards the end of my third year as a ...
China’s economy grew by 6.7% and per capita household income grew by less than2% on an annual average basis. In the past four decades of reform and opening-up,however, household income growth (about 11%) slightly outpaced GDP annualgrowth rate (about 10%). In this sense, the three ...
Has Washington seriously considered the effects on population growth in the three decades of prodigious increases in immigration? Yes, but perfunctorily and usually as a sop to its conservationist constituencies. If anything, national leaders and opinion formers have shown more concern over too little...
Of these, 4433 are negative. 223 results are yet to be received. Covid 19: Covid confirmed to four more, Including a one-year-old child in the district. Kozhikode District Medical Officer Dr. Jayasree V has confirmed that four more people including a one-year-old ...