Jobs, Houses and Cows: China’s Costly Drive to Erase Extreme Poverty (Published 2020)
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China has spent heavily to help its poorest citizens, an approach that few developing countries can afford and even Beijing may struggle to sustain.

Let’s see what this article from 2020 has to say about China successfully managing to eliminate extreme poverty:

"But the village, one of six in Gansu visited by The New York Times without government oversight, is also a testament to the considerable cost of the ruling Communist Party’s approach to poverty alleviation. That approach has relied on massive, possibly unsustainable subsidies to create jobs and build better housing.

Local cadres fanned out to identify impoverished households — defined as living on less than $1.70 a day. They handed out loans, grants and even farm animals to poor villagers. Officials visited residents weekly to check on their progress.

“We’re pretty sure China’s eradication of absolute poverty in rural areas has been successful — given the resources mobilized, we are less sure it is sustainable or cost effective,” said Martin Raiser, the World Bank country director for China."

Hm…unsustainable you say? Well it’s now four years later and it seems things have only continued to get better and better. And not “cost-effective”? Well yes, if you’re a capitalist parasite then spending money to lift people out of poverty probably isn’t “cost-effective”. But the people who no longer have to live in the same miserable conditions they endured before sure seem to think it’s been pretty effective for them.

  • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    The British Diaspora build their countries on stolen fertile land that receive good care from Aboriginal populations, free child slaves from the Indian Residential fake schools that secretly continued after 1997, and free stolen inheritance from the fake cultural assimilation policy; why is wrong with a government subsidy program that worked in practice when Pax Americana have welfare policies that are supposed to compensate for Capitalist problem at a much larger cost? Furthermore, do the Western European diaspora now need to import a huge number of foreign workers to compensate for their failed politico-economic system and parasitic lifestyle that depends on free riding of Aboriginal children and colonized people of color?