A report from the country's industry and information ministry showed that by the end of March, 98.6 percent of China's major industrial enterprises have resumed production, representing an increase of 15.5 percentage points from February 23. Meanwhile, the resumption of poverty-...
Conventionally, it is useful for showing the percentage of the population who has been relatively left behind. Apart from the several poverty measurements mentioned above, some literature focuses on the multidimensional poverty based on the “capability poverty” theory of Sen (1996) and presents a ...
The Asia-Pacific region comprises over 52% of the world's older population. China currently has the largest global elderly population (209 million) followed byIndia(116.6 million). Together, they comprise the largest global percentage of elderly populations (i.e., 36%). The Asia-Pacific region...
household incomes in China were less than developed countries. When the reform and opening up program was unveiled in 1978, China’s rural poverty incidence was 30.7% and China’s poverty line was 100 yuan per person p...
2013 to 2020, the total number of rural poor people decreased by 98.9 million, with an average annual reduction of 12.4 million, and the poverty incidence rate decreased by 1.3 percentage points each year. In 2020, in the face of the sudden outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, China ...
Poverty reduction is an eternal theme in the modernization drive of countries. After 2020, China’s poverty reduction endeavors will face new challenges and shift towards: (i) elevating poverty standards, (ii) placing equal emphas...
Therefore, if these projections are accurate, the poverty rate was already 5.3 percentage points lower 2 months ago than at the beginning of Javier Milei’s presidency. I’m not a big believer in drawing sweeping conclusions based on less than a year’s worth of data, but I will say ...
Since 1978, China has lifted 740 million people out of poverty, reducing the poverty headcount ratio by 94.4 percentage points. The country is committed to lifting the entire poor rural population out of poverty by 2020. (Xinhua/Li Xin) BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Areas of China ...
Rural Poverty in Indonesia: ¹% of people living below the rural poverty line ²% of people living below the urban poverty line Source: Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) The urban poverty rate is the percentage of the urban population living below the national urban poverty line. Urban poverty ...
Photo taken on June 25, 2022 shows the Padma Bridge in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The bridge, built by a Chinese enterprise, is expected to contribute 1.23 percentage points to Bangladesh’s GDP growth and reduce poverty rate by 0.84 percentage point per year. (Photo/Xinhua) ...