Financial Times: …Beijing’s intense pride at having eradicated poverty is impeding its efforts to confront it. “Poverty is simply not a word that you use any longer other than talking about falling back into poverty or having eradicated poverty,” Bikales says.
To build on its initial gains, says Bikales, China needs to update its definition of poverty, expand its welfare provisions and address the “yawning gap” in social services received by urban and rural residents. “China is now clearly falling short of what most of the world is doing in terms of addressing poverty,” he says…