Saturday, January 31, 2009

Economic growth does not mean "natural reduction of poverty"

Economic growth does not mean "natural reduction of poverty"

Western economics from the originator of Adam Smith's writing "The Wealth of Nations" to start, "get rich economics" has been a significant study. But "rich world" does not eliminate poverty. The 21st century, the challenges of poverty has become even more severe.

United Nations anti-poverty agency's statistics show that in the past 50 years, the world's wealth increased by 7 times, while the problem of poverty is worsening. In the last 5 years, the world's poor population increased by 300 million a day, 7.5 billion people who suffer from hunger. This shows that economic growth does not necessarily bring plenty of people's lives, the problem of market failure on the absence of government or policy.

Policies and regulations of the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office Secretary Liu Hopewell said that the achievements of China's poverty alleviation has attracted worldwide attention. Despite China's poverty-stricken population in 2003 was picked up, but the overall Recalling "Tenth Five-Year" period, as we push forward to take the whole village, training transfer, the industrialization of poverty alleviation, establishment of guarantee funds, and reform the way a series of discounts to increase anti-poverty measures, make poverty alleviation a historic turning point.