The Human Side of Poverty Alleviation

• 作者: Jerry Grey
• 来源期刊: 北京周报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（23）
• 所属期刊栏目: OPINION
• 页码范围: 30-31
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-9140.2021.23.011

摘要

Poverty shouldn't be a controversial subject, but it is. The World Bank, the World Health Organization, the U.S. State Department and pretty much every government in the world has a different definition of what poverty means. In China, absolute poverty is defined as 11 yuan a day; this is about $1.7. The World Bank disagrees and sets a higher number. In 2011 the U.S. considered people to be in poverty if their consumption was less than $21.7 a day. If that were the case, given inflation, almost all Chinese people outside of a few large cities would be in poverty. But living in China is different.