Over the past decades, China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty, achieving the poverty reduction goals of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a full decade ahead of schedule.
The Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has launched an inquiry into pensioner poverty, looking at the impact of pensioner poverty and its potential mitigations, and the costs that should be covered by ...
The links between poverty, economic growth, and income distribution have been studied quite extensively in recent literature on economic development. Absolute poverty can be alleviated if at least two ...
Households in relative poverty have less than 60% of average (median) income in the current year. The number of additional pensioners in absolute poverty – compared to the median in 2010/11 – is ...
During China's battle against absolute poverty, a total of 255,000 teams were dispatched to offer on-the-ground support and over 3 million people were sent to the countryside as special ...