Experts: Chinese targeted poverty alleviation benefits the world
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Multidimensional Poverty Study Helps with Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Talking about his observation in terms of China’s progress in the study of multidimensional poverty index (MPI), Piero Conforti, a senior statistician with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, said, “We saw a lot of progress, and we trust a lot more progress will happen in the coming period in the country.”
Piero Conforti, a senior statistician with the Food andAgriculture Organization of the United Nations.
“Of course China is a big country, is very diverse. There are strong differences between urban areas and some rural areas, between regions and provinces, so a tool like the multidimensional measurement that can help targeting policies is also particularly useful in this context,” he added.
Gonzalo Hernandez Licona, general secretary of CONEVAL from Mexico said he learned that China had been doing rural research in multidimensional poverty. “They’ve been applying it, not officially, but they’ve been applying it over the past few years. On the other hand, I learned as well that, only with income poverty probably has been reduced in China quite a lot. And that was a very good example for the whole world.”
Gonzalo Hernandez Licona, General Secretary of CONEVALfrom Mexico.