China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …

The Small Area Estimation (SAE) of poverty in Rural Bhutan was prepared with an objective to provide a more … disaggregated picture of poverty in Bhutan down to the gewog level, based on the Bhutan living standard survey 2007 and Population … statistical tests for quality checks. According to these tests, the poverty estimates at the gewog level are reliable. The report …

This report shows that after a decade of moderate growth but little or no long term change in rural poverty in Pakistan …, agricultural output, rural incomes, rural poverty and social welfare indicators all showed marked improvements between 2001-02 and … rate (1999- 2000 to 2004-05) was only 0.3 percent per year; rural poverty rates in 2004-05 are still at levels that …

This study is part of the second phase of a long-term programmatic work on poverty in Mexico, in three phases being … carried out by the Bank at the request of the Government of Mexico. Reasons for a study on rural poverty, are because the size … and intensity of the phenomenon, poverty, and inequality in rural Mexico are a matter of concern not only from the well …

The report analyzes poverty incidence in India and in particular, in Uttar Pradesh (UP), and defines its poverty levels … arrested, problems still remain. The report documents poverty along a number of dimensions, i.e., material and human … deprivation, where poverty, if measured in terms of material deprivation, is high, and progress at reducing it, has been uneven …