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In light of the SDG target of ending poverty in all its forms everywhere, this chapter will analyze and assess the situation of poverty in China in an all-round way.
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It’s forecasted by the UNDP in evaluating the progress toward the attainment of MDGs. According to the statistics released by the UNDP in October 2016, measured against the poverty line of USD 1.9 per person per day, the incidence of poverty in urban and rural China stood at 1.85% in 2013, with a poor population of 25.11 million, far below the previous forecast.
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Data source: World Bank: PovcalNet, accessed on August 9, 2017.
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Xu and Wang et al. (2011).
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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division (2015).
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Ray (2002).
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Lin (1994).
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Ma (2016).
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Wang, X., Zhang, X. (2020). Poverty in China and the Challenge of the 2030 Poverty Eradication Targets. In: Towards 2030 – China’s Poverty Alleviation and Global Poverty Governance. International Research on Poverty Reduction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6356-0_3
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