Are There Lessons For Africa From China's Success Against Poverty?

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...

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Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2008
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