...Josh Freedman President Xi Jinping has staked his reputation on an ambitious goal: eliminating absolute poverty in China by 2020. Josh Freedman compares two nearby towns in rural Hunan province to reveal the limitations of China’s poverty alleviation campaign. IT IS A DILEMMA OF GOVERNANCE...

...Sheri Berman An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate , Jones Gareth Stedman , New York : Columbia University Press , 2005 The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time , Sachs Jeffrey D. , New York : Penguin Press , 2005 Copyright © 2006 World Policy...

...Karoline Kan Beijing is the cosmopolitan capital; Tianjin is an international harbor—but the surrounding Hebei province is mired in poverty. Beijing-based writer Karoline Kan outlines China’s plan to integrate these three areas, known collectively as Jing-Jin-Ji, and raise the living standards...

... World Policy Journal examines the aging workforce in six countries, and finds that seniors in France and Spain are least likely to work full-time or live in poverty. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 family age France Spain Australia United States Israel Japan poverty...

... against the government. SPRING 2017 73 Venezuela crime poverty nutrition protests Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 ...

... their poverty, and support sustainable develop­ economic reform programs and improve ment. These fine words were then dis­ governance, and on the developed countries tilled— after consultation with the Interna­ to step up their support by providing more tional Monetary Fund (IMF), the World aid...

... for Vancouver-based Canada Without Poverty. Pedro Conceicao is chief economist for the United Nations Development Program’s Regional Bureau for Africa. Irene Mandl is a research manager at the Employment and Change Unit of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions...

... for centuries fuel global migration today—the quest for freedom, to escape war, and to provide a decent standard of living for their families. People are both pushed and pulled into migration. Pushed by poverty, violence, or oppression; pulled by the siren call of wealth and opportunity offered by the world’s...

... We often forget that Emerging Markets 5 50 55 poverty was the human Industrial Countries 95 75 45 living standard for most Life Expectancy (years) of recorded history. Until Emerging Markets...

... that is thoroughly integrated into the fabric of daily activity, but about which we have known very little, until now. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 lottery gambling United States South Africa tax avoidance poverty Purchasing a lottery ticket is, for millions of people worldwide...

... Bank. But the wealth created by this new growth has been unevenly distributed. Still, there has been a “rising tide” effect. When Garcia was sworn in as president in 2006, Peru had a nearly 50 percent poverty rate. Official numbers say the current poverty rate has decreased to about a third...

... the following year and is now experiencing been especially hard on women. Besides suf­ robust economic growth. In Russia and fering worse degrees of poverty and unem­ most of Eastern Europe (including the Bal­ ployment than men, they have also had to tic states), the stores are full, queues have cope...

... change is reinforced and amplified by multiple and interacting non-climatic stresses and shocks from widespread poverty to poor input and output markets, marginalization from decision-making processes and a failing economy and poor governance systems with deteriorating safety nets. Vulnerability...

... their nationality reinstated. Rules of naturalization are rigorous and include exams in Estonian language and law. As a result, large parts of our population are non-citizens. While democracy has given people the right to vote, the vast majority remain stricken by poverty. Growing inequality results in a loss...

... and is the main Several African countries have also be­ source of income for the vast majority of come assertive on agricultural issues in those living in or near poverty. The 30 international trade debates. South Africa member countries of the OECD spend a com­ played a lead role in the recent WTO...

... generates a tidal wave of pain that eats away at the social fabric of a community. And the story of each and every murder reflects the conditions of violence, marginalization, abandonment, and poverty of a country’s people. Every time I watch a documentary in which a journalist has managed to infiltrate...

..., as did 87 of drug trafficking, crime, social violence, percent of Latin opinion leaders, making political ineptitude, persistent poverty, and him the most unpopular U.S. president deepening inequality pose a growing threat ever. Since 2000, negative opinion of the to Latin American democracy...

... industry was able to put out their albums made reggae an immediate source of aspirational social commentary, even in the early years. But for those who did not come from poverty, there was another way to enter the fraternity of the sufferahs: Rastafarianism. Decades before “street cred” was the litmus...

... of Ecuadorians below the poverty line soaring from 35 percent to over 50 percent. Between 1998 and 2002, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 Ecuadorians—many of them skilled workers and members of the middle class—left the country, most for the United States or Spain. Today, in New York City’s borough...

... by ramshackle houses that convey a sense not just of poverty but of estrangement. The Revolution did not usher in rural development or narrow the economic gulf between city and countryside. In parts of the north of Nicaragua—where the counter-revolution was fought—Nicaraguans do not even use the term...