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A 10 page research paper that examines the plight of China's poor. Citing documents from the World Bank, the writer presents an overall look at the efforts that are being made to elevate China's poor to a decent standard of living. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Social Side of Poverty in China - June, 2000 - properly! In the early 1960s, China suffered
a famine that killed nearly 40 million people (Leary, 1999, p. 44). In the intervening decades, the plight of Chinas poor has improved to some extent. According to a
World Bank report, since 1978, China has succeeded in raising 200 million people out of poverty. Nevertheless, despite this stunning success, some 270 million Chinese continue to live on less
than a dollar a day. This figure means that China is home to roughly one-fifth of the worlds total population of people living below the poverty line. In other
words, while there has been tremendous success in alleviating the abject poverty of many Chinese, there is also a long way to go before the problem of abject poverty and
the threat of starvation are eradicated from Chinese society. While the Chinese government has, in recent years, endeavored to encourage a market economy, the countrys Communist leaders have also used
every means possible to keep a tight control over that society. This has resulted in decreasing the effectiveness of their poverty eradication projects. Also, government policy has contributed to the
income disparity between the poor rural interior of China and the more prosperous urban coast. These government policies exhibit a marked bias for coastal development over other regions of China.
Experts agree that, by far, the greatest income disparities in China exist between the rural and urban populations (Barrett; Versak, 1997). Also, experts feel that inequality between these two
groups will continue to increase as the Chinese endeavor to complete their transformation to a mature market economy. Nevertheless, a World Bank report also predicted that economic growth and social
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