GENEVA, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The poverty rate in China's Tibet Autonomous Region has dropped from 25.2 percent in 2015 to 5.6 percent as of June 2019, and the number of people living in poverty there has decreased from 590,000 to 150,000 in the same period, said a Chinese expert here...
poverty rate in 2009 was about 12.6 percent using the $1.25-per-day poverty threshold and 16.8 percent using the $1.50-per-day poverty threshold.Poverty in rural areas is much more severe than in urban areas.We find that China's current poverty prevalence is higher than the official ...
8 (Xinhua) -- China has witnessed substantial drop of poverty rate in the past 40 years, especially in rural areas, thanks to reform and opening-up, a top poverty alleviation official said Saturday. The poverty rate, proportion of people living below the Chinese poverty line, had fallen ...
Chinareal exchange rate pass-throughpovertyasymmetriesF31F41This article provides evidence on asymmetric real exchange rate pass-through to poverty for the Chinese economy by using the nonlinear auto-regressive distributed lag model spanning the period 1981–2012. The results corroborate the asymmetric ...
Poverty eradication is a common task for mankind, and even more challenging for China as the biggest developing country with largest population in the world. When the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, it was one of the countries with the highest poverty rate in the world. The...
The remarks of Guterres made great sense if one looks at the weakening rights of western workers in recent decades. In the 1960s and 1970s, to combat high inflation and stagnant profit rate, capitalist countries in the west introduced measures such as lowering wages and cracking down on worker...
(2016-2020). By 2020, the state is committed to ensuring that the impoverished rural population has stable access to adequate food and clothing, compulsory education, and basic medical services and housing; to realizing a growth rate of per-capita disposable income in poor rural areas higher ...
The remarks of Guterres made great sense if one looks at the weakening rights of western workers in recent decades. In the 1960s and 1970s, to combat high inflation and stagnant profit rate, capitalist countries in the west introduced measures such as lowering wages and cracking down on worker...
Since 2000, the share of people living in extreme poverty in rural China has been constantly decreasing. In February 2021, the Chinese government announced that - based on the current definition of poverty - all residents in China have been relieved from extreme poverty. ...
China is no exception. Over the past 40 years, since the economic reform launched in 1978, rapid economic growth has lifted millions of people out of poverty in China. The Human Development Report in 2016 indicates that the global extreme poverty prevalence rate, measured by the poverty line ...