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This book provides a systematic overview of China's achievements in eliminating absolute poverty by 2020 under current standards. The book is divided into three parts: The first part is a study of major policy practices with distinctive characteristics in China's poverty alleviation practices; the second part is a study of China's international cooperation in poverty alleviation; the third part is a study of China's poverty alleviation by international scholars from the perspective of international cooperation and international comparison. These reports pay attention to China's achievements and experiences in poverty alleviation and reflect on how to strengthen cooperation with China in poverty alleviation. .

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Targeted Poverty Alleviation: China's Road of Poverty Reduction Toward Common Prosperity -- 1.1 Journey of China's Rural Poverty Reduction -- 1.1.1 Before the Adoption of Reform and Opening-Up: Providing Relief to the Extremely Poor and Struggle for Survival -- 1.1.2 From 1978 to 2012: Development-Oriented Poverty Alleviation and Massive Poverty Reduction -- 1.1.3 From 2013 to 2020: Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Elimination of Absolute Poverty -- 1.2 Achievements in China's Rural Poverty Reduction -- 1.2.1 Complete Eradication of Rural Absolute Poverty Below Current Poverty Line -- 1.2.2 Faster Increases in Incomes and Consumption Levels of the Poor People -- 1.2.3 Constant Improvements in Living Standards and Level of Basic Public Services Enjoyed by the Poor People -- 1.2.4 Elimination of Overall Regional Poverty as Scheduled -- 1.2.5 Obvious Strengthening of Capacity for Social Governance -- 1.3 Contributions of China's Poverty Reduction to the World -- 1.3.1 China Found Solutions to Overcome the "Last-Mile" Problem in Poverty Reduction, and Created a Miracle in Global Efforts for Poverty Reduction -- 1.3.2 Making Contributions to Global Poverty Alleviation and Improvement in the Human Development Index -- 1.3.3 Providing the Chinese Approach for Global Poverty Governance -- 1.3.4 Providing China's Strength for the Global Poverty Alleviation Drive -- 1.4 China's Experience in Poverty Elimination -- 1.4.1 Choosing the Road of Comprehensive Poverty Reduction for the Impoverished -- 1.4.2 Adhering to the Road of Economic Development-Oriented Poverty Reduction -- 1.4.3 Carrying Out Government-Dominated International Cooperation and Social Participation -- 1.4.4 Adhering to Improving the Self-Development Capability of Impoverished Regions and the Poor Population -- 1.4.5 Adhering to Innovation in Poverty Alleviation.

This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional character of this social condition. The new edition includes a range of entries to keep pace with an expanding field of discourse, an expanded set of references and further perspectives from developing countries. A special effort has been made to incorporate non-Western approaches and concepts