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Lessons in poverty alleviation from China by B.H. Padmasiri de Silva China is the largest developing country in the world, its population
making up about 22 percent of the earth's total. For quite a long-time in
the past, China was a poor country for various reasons. Since the founding
of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and especially since the end of
the 1970s, when China introduced the policy of reform and opening to the
outside world, the Chinese government, while devoting considerable efforts
to all-round economic and social development, has implemented nationwide a
large-scale programme for development-oriented poverty relief in a planned
and organised way. Other Stories
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