This book offers comprehensive analysis for individual cases of poverty alleviation to facilitate respective in-depth key learnings and an overview of poverty alleviation strategies carried out in China. Best practices were selected from representative cases in China to demonstrate the development of different approaches in the poverty alleviation journey with collective stakeholders' efforts - Government, Industry, Academia, and Research, plus the local stakeholders engaged in the rural development activities. Overseas cases are referenced to show the outcome of similar strategies as comparison with the consideration of regional specific conditions.

Through better understanding of the focal issues, areas and organizations - and their respective key challenges and solutions - there is the compilation for each case its analysis, comparative studies and SDG relevance. These aim at engaging the readers from institutes, governments, corporates, or social enterprises, to think about how to adopt the related SDG strategies. They also serve as the initiatives to facilitate potential cross-region and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

The book acts as the guide on how:

- Poverty Reduction is one of the key goals in SDGs - while solving this key challenge, multiple goals could be planned and tackled together to make an effective solution.

- Multi-disciplinary strategies are put in place, demonstrated via success stories and best practices. Key driving factors are identified with the consideration of the driving organization nature.

- A system could be developed to engage different stakeholders in the society for industry development - and to avoid returning to poverty in the long term.

- Future international cooperation could be facilitated to create a poverty alleviation framework applicable across different regions.

About the Author

The International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC) is an organization directly under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), jointly initiated and established by the Chinese government, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other international organizations in May 2005. IPRCC's main responsibilities include carrying out domestic and foreign poverty reduction research, exchanges, cooperation, training and foreign investment project management. It is an international exchanges platform for poverty reduction and development, and a key channel for the Chinese government to carry out South-South cooperation.

Book Information
ISBN 9789819745364
Author Intl Poverty Reduction Center In China
Format Paperback
Page Count 125
Imprint Springer Nature
Publisher Springer Verlag, Singapore