China's story is proof that developing countries ... and more than a century to lift people above the $6.85 per day poverty line, the report said. Xu Feibiao, a senior researcher and the director ...

The World Bank has reported a slowdown in the poverty reduction efforts of China while projecting further deceleration in the upcoming years due to an anticipated slower economic growth ...

China has worked hard to reduce the number of citizens who live in poverty. The number of people in China who earn less than $1.90 (£1.25) per day, which is the line the World Bank uses to ...

China is rolling out a subsidy for impoverished ... the number of Chinese living below the international poverty line, ...

China claimed last year it had met its target of lifting all its people out of extreme poverty. President Xi Jinping heralded it as a “major victory” that the Chinese Communist Party had ...

Since China began to open up and reform its economy in 1978, GDP growth has averaged over 9 percent a year, and more than 800 million people have lifted themselves out of poverty. There have also been ...

The reforms outlined in the third plenum sets the groundwork for deepening efforts such as poverty alleviation to sustainable development. China salesman sleeps in car to save money for trips to ...

The fact that strongly-relative measures show rising poverty is easily understood, since such measures depend solely on relative distribution, and inequality in China has been rising until recently.

Both China and Vietnam have made enormous progress in the fight against poverty, and the evidence suggests that rural economic growth has played a large role in this success. Using each country's own ...

China's boom has seen it rise to become the world's second-largest economy, but inequality remains stark and the Global Times newspaper, citing the National Bureau of Statistics, said 70 million ...

The poverty rate in the Philippines dropped to 15.5 percent in 2023 from 18.1 percent in 2021, which the government translates into 2.4 million Filipinos lifted above the poverty line. "With the ...