Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below US$ 1.90 per day - the International Poverty … Line defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty- has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has … contributed to almost three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. In 2021, China …

Activity in China continues to track the ups and downs of the pandemic - outbreaks and growth slowdowns have been … growth is expected to slow to 2.7 percent in 2022 - 1.6 percentage points lower than projected in the June China economic …

, adopting policies, and increasing public expenditures targeting these. China's agricultural policies and support mechanisms … agriculture reflect this dynamic evolution and changing priorities concerning the development of China's agriculture and rural …

Since 2009, China has been undertaking an ambitious program of health system reforms. Comprehensive reforms were … have led to notable achievements; however, challenges remain. The government of China tackled these health system … challenges in its Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, the implementation of which was supported by a USD 600 million China Health Program …

This paper shows that China has launched a new global system for cross-border rescue lending to countries in debt … distress. It builds the first comprehensive dataset on China's overseas bailouts between 2000 and 2021 and provide new insights … into China's growing role in the global financial system. A key finding is that the global swap line network put in place …

challenges. China's fishing fleet is the world's largest, and in 2016 the government changed its fuel subsidy policy for distant … fuel subsidies on fishing activity and fish stocks, the findings inform ongoing subsidy reform in China, other nations with …