BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A total of 832 counties, 128,000 villages and nearly 100 million people were living in poverty. This was the reality that China had to face. The task of providing support to ...

Social protection programs can facilitate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but can also create trade-offs across divergent social and environmental goals that can undermine ...

After China declared victory in eradicating absolute poverty in 2021, consolidating the gains made and preventing poverty ...

Many displaced people live in extreme poverty. The most vulnerable among them are so poor that they can’t engage in activities from most regular livelihood programmes. They are also short of basic ...

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

Changes in cadre appraisals showed considerable results in raising rural income levels, but there are still questions as to the sustainability of the gains. China declared in 2021 that it had stamped ...

Donate now to Food For The Poor’s match campaign and support their holistic, transformational approach to poverty reduction. Is it enough to provide for someone physically if their emotional and ...

When this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to three pioneers in using randomized controlled trials to fight poverty in developing countries, the choice revived questions ...

In an article last month on state goals for 2017, China's Xinhua news agency reported, "China has lifted 700 million people out of poverty through more than 30 years of reform and opening-up," while ...