The Quality Of Growth And Poverty Reduction In China

Author : Xiaolin Wang,Limin Wang,Yan Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642363467

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The Quality of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China by Xiaolin Wang,Limin Wang,Yan Wang Pdf

The rapid growth over the past three decades has been instrumental in lifting over 600 million people in China out of poverty, and people want to know why and how it happened. International evidence has made it clear that a global economy based on current patterns of consumption and production is simply not sustainable. Policymakers have repeatedly been advised that economic growth, poverty reduction, equity, and environment and resource sustainability must be integrated into national development strategies. What about China? The principle limitation of existing China-focused economic studies lies in its imbalances from the perspective of analysis and the impact of growth on poverty and inequality. A limited number of studies are devoted to structural transformation and China’s structural imbalances, social disparities and the impact of science and technology on growth and productivity. This book addresses the alarming environmental consequences of China’s growth patterns within an overall quality growth framework. It contributes to the economic growth and development literature and current policy discourse on China by expanding the policy analysis to include several important new areas using the most recent data available. This includes analyzing the macroeconomic factors that underlie the need for China to advance its economic transformation; examining how social inequalities, including health, education and gender, have evolved and presenting the scale of environmental problems associated with China’s growth miracle. This report represents the first attempt to integrate the issue of environmental sustainability and climate change into the quality growth context, providing readers with a comprehensive account of China’s success and challenges in its three decades of rapid economic growth.

Author : 王小林,王立敏,王燕,International Poverty Reduction Center in China
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 7509731003

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The Quality of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China by 王小林,王立敏,王燕,International Poverty Reduction Center in China Pdf

Author : Shenggen Fan,Connie Chan-Kang
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896291416

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Road Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction in China by Shenggen Fan,Connie Chan-Kang Pdf

Since 1985, the Chinese government has given high priority to building roads, particularly high-quality roads that connect industrial centers. This report evaluates the contribution roads have made to poverty reduction and economic growth in China over the last two decades. It disaggregates road infrastructure into different classes to account for differences in their quality, and then estimates the impact of road investments on overall economic growth, agricultural growth, urban growth, urban poverty reduction, and rural poverty reduction. The report makes the case for a greater focus on low-quality and rural roads in future infrastructure investment strategies in China. It does so by showing how investing in low-quality and rural roads will generate larger marginal returns, raise more people out of poverty per yuan invested, and reduce regional development disparity more sharply than investing in high-quality roads. The study's findings will have considerable implications for China's infrastructure policy

Author : Xiaolin Wang,Xiaoying Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811563560

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Towards 2030 – China’s Poverty Alleviation and Global Poverty Governance by Xiaolin Wang,Xiaoying Zhang Pdf

This book assesses the global significance of China’s decade-long campaign to reduce poverty. After showing how the country’s unique approach to poverty alleviation brought about unparalleled progress toward achieving both the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the authors shed light on how China’s experience can help other countries around the globe as they try to permanently rid humanity of the scourge of poverty under ever more challenging social, economic and environmental conditions.

Author : Houkai Wei,Lei Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811959943

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Poverty Reduction in China by Houkai Wei,Lei Wang Pdf

This book provides a systematic overview of China's achievements in eliminating absolute poverty by 2020 under current standards. The book is divided into three parts: The first part is a study of major policy practices with distinctive characteristics in China's poverty alleviation practices; the second part is a study of China's international cooperation in poverty alleviation; the third part is a study of China's poverty alleviation by international scholars from the perspective of international cooperation and international comparison. These reports pay attention to China's achievements and experiences in poverty alleviation and reflect on how to strengthen cooperation with China in poverty alleviation.

Author : World Bank;Development Research Center of the State Council, the People's Republic of China
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464818783

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Four Decades of Poverty Reduction in China by World Bank;Development Research Center of the State Council, the People's Republic of China Pdf

Regardless of the poverty line used, the speed and scale of China’s poverty reduction is historically unprecedented. Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below US$1.90 per day—the international poverty line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty—has fallen by close to 800 million, accounting for almost three-quarters of the global reduction in extreme poverty. In 2021, China declared that it had eradicated extreme poverty according to its national poverty threshold, and that it had built a “moderately prosperous society in all respects.†? However, a significant number of people remain vulnerable, with incomes below a threshold more typically used to define poverty in upper-middle-income countries. China has set a new goal of approaching common prosperity by 2035, which can help keep the policy focus on the vulnerable population. Four Decades of Poverty Reduction in China: Drivers, Insights for the World, and the Way Ahead explores the key drivers of China’s poverty alleviation achievements and considers the lessons of China’s experience for other developing countries. The report also makes suggestions for China’s future policies. China’s approach to poverty reduction was based on two pillars. The first aimed for broad-based economic transformation to open new economic opportunities and raise average incomes. The second was the recognition that targeted support was needed to alleviate persistent poverty; this support was initially provided to disadvantaged areas and later to individual households. The success of China’s economic development and the associated reduction of poverty also benefited from effective governance, which helped coordinate multiple government agencies and induce cooperation from nongovernment stakeholders. To illustrate the role of broad-based economic transformation for poverty alleviation, separate sections of the report analyze growing agricultural productivity, incremental industrialization, managed urbanization and rural-to-urban migration, and the role of infrastructure.

Author : Shahid Yusuf,Kaoru Nabeshima
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821365106

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China's Development Priorities by Shahid Yusuf,Kaoru Nabeshima Pdf

"Over the past two decades China's growth has been rapid, social indicators have improved, and poverty levels have inched downward. However, widening inequality, increasing resource and financial imbalances, and growing environmental concerns provide China with daunting challenges in improving the quality of growth. The rapid growth that will remain China's principal vehicle for raising standards of living and reducing poverty will derive from urbanization, increased market efficiency, and improvement in the technological capability of Chinese firms. But although growth will be critically important, balance among income groups and sectors is likely to be vital for social stability. The needed measures to enhance the quantity and quality of social services and a more effective safety net for the poor will require a number of institutional changes, including a reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations. Directed at readers working in economic policy, poverty reduction, social development, and urban and municipal finance, China's Development Priorities highlights the significance of the challenges facing China and suggests policies for achieving rapid, balanced, and sustainable growth."

Author : Shenggen Fan,Connie Chan-Kang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 089629143X

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Road Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction in China by Shenggen Fan,Connie Chan-Kang Pdf

Author : Shaohua Chen,Yan Wang
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : China
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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China's Growth and Poverty Reduction by Shaohua Chen,Yan Wang Pdf

The authors investigate recent rends in poverty, and inequality in China, decomposing data on poverty reduction to see who has benefited most from China's economic growth. They find that, by several measures, poverty declined significantly in the 1990s, across a wide range of poverty lines, except that a slight slowdown in China's export, and economic growth in 1997-99 might have hurt the poor. There was a slight increase in the poverty headcount between 1997 and 1999, using lower poverty lines, and a worsening of the poverty gap index. Average per capita consumption declined for farmers, especially those living in poor regions such as Gans, Heilongjiang, Sanxi, and Xinjiang. It is unclear whether this decline was attributable to Asia's economic crisis. Economic growth contributed significantly to poverty reduction, but rising inequality worsened both rural, and urban income distributions - except during the Asian crisis, when the distribution remained relatively stable. The poor benefited far less than the rich from economic growth. Income growth reached, or exceeded the average growth rate only for the richest twenty percent of the population. The authors then examine the relationship between human capital, growth, and poverty. They find that the accumulation of human capital had slowed, and that there is a huge regional disparity in human capital stock. And the distribution of education is becoming increasingly skewed. China must address this problem if it is to succeed in attacking poverty, and inequality.

Author : Shenggen Fan,Linxiu Zhang,Xiaobo Zhang
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780896291287

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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Rural China by Shenggen Fan,Linxiu Zhang,Xiaobo Zhang Pdf

Growth, inequality, and poverty; Public capital e investment; Concptual framework and model; Data, estimation, and results.

Author : Shaohua Chen,Martin Ravallion
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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China's (uneven) Progress Against Poverty by Shaohua Chen,Martin Ravallion Pdf

"While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and across provinces. Rural areas accounted for the bulk of the gains to the poor, though migration to urban areas helped. The pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic growth. Agriculture played a far more important role than the secondary or tertiary sources of GDP. Rising inequality within the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high inequality saw slower progress against poverty, due both to lower growth and a lower growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Taxation of farmers and inflation hurt the poor. External trade had little short-term impact. This paper a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the causes of country success in poverty reduction"--World Bank web site.

Author : Kun Yan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662473924

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Poverty Alleviation in China by Kun Yan Pdf

This study systematically investigates the development process, major characteristics and weak links of China's poverty alleviation experience and conducts a comparative analysis of poverty alleviation cases. It also accurately presents the internal logic and core elements of China's poverty alleviation theory and taking the Chinese experience of poverty alleviation refines the "Two Threads One Force" theoretical framework to make a basic judgment of the "China model" for poverty alleviation. It also presents the rationale and plans for responding to new challenges to achieve poverty alleviation goals, which will enhance the welfare of the people and promote social progress and national prosperity.

Author : China Development Research Foundation
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134042104

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Eliminating Poverty Through Development in China by China Development Research Foundation Pdf

In recent years China has achieved impressive economic growth, and also made remarkable progress in human development. However, contemporary China is still faced with the great challenge of widespread poverty. This not only constitutes a barrier against China’s pursuit of sustainable economic growth, but also poses a potential threat to China’s attempts to construct a harmonious society in the future. This book, written by three renowned poverty-reduction experts under the aegis of the China Development Research Foundation - one of China’s leading think-tanks - and drawing on the research of over twenty of China’s top scholars in this field, examines China’s efforts to eliminate poverty through development. It analyses all of the key issues, providing a review of China’s past record in poverty alleviation, comparing this with the experiences of other countries, identifying the new characteristics and trends in poverty in recent years, and discussing the factors responsible. It assesses the objectives and success of the poverty alleviation policies adopted by the Chinese government in a comprehensive way, and puts forward suggestions for policy makers. Overall, this book is a valuable account of China’s own thinking on its problems of poverty, and the best ways to tackle it and achieve sustainable economic development.

Author : Shubham Chaudhuri,Martin Ravallion
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Absolute Poverty
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Partially Awakened Giants by Shubham Chaudhuri,Martin Ravallion Pdf

Abstract: The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China and India and what this has meant for inequality and poverty. Drawing on analyses based on existing household survey data and aggregate data from official sources, the authors show that growth has indeed been uneven-geographically, sectorally, and at the household level-and that this has meant uneven progress against poverty, less poverty reduction than might have been achieved had growth been more balanced, and an increase in income inequality. The paper then examines why growth was uneven and why this should be of concern. The discussion is structured around the idea that there are both "good" and "bad" inequalities-drivers and dimensions of inequality and uneven growth that are good or bad in terms of what they imply for both equity and long-term growth and development. The authors argue that the development paths of both China and India have been influenced by, and have generated, both types of inequalities and that while good inequalities-most notably those that reflect the role of economic incentives-have been critical to the growth experience thus far, there is a risk that bad inequalities-those that prevent individuals from connecting to markets and limit investment and accumulation of human capital and physical capital-may undermine the sustainability of growth in the coming years. The authors argue that policies are needed that preserve the good inequalities-continued incentives for innovation and investment-but reduce the scope for bad ones, notably through investments in human capital and rural infrastructure that help the poor connect to markets.

Author : Martin Ravallion,Shaohua Chen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290702801

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China's (Uneven) Progress Against Poverty by Martin Ravallion,Shaohua Chen Pdf

While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and across provinces. Rural areas accounted for the bulk of the gains to the poor, though migration to urban areas helped. The pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic growth. Agriculture played a far more important role than the secondary or tertiary sources of GDP. Rising inequality within the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high inequality saw slower progress against poverty, due both to lower growth and a lower growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Taxation of farmers and inflation hurt the poor. External trade had little short-term impact.This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the causes of country success in poverty reduction.