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Quick questions on Rising living standards and poverty reduction explained: H2 China Studies
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What is growth as the main engine?Show answer
The primary driver of this transformation was broad-based economic growth. The reforms unleashed rapid expansion across agriculture, industry and services, and that growth raised incomes for the bulk of the population. Decollectivisation and the household responsibility system lifted rural incomes in the early years; industrialisation and the coastal export boom created hundreds of millions of jobs; and urbanisation allowed migrants to earn far more in cities than in the fields. For most of the reform period, poverty reduction tracked the rise in GDP closely: as the economy grew, the number of people below the poverty line fell.
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State the scale of China's poverty reduction and the basis on which it is measured. [4 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain why targeted policy was needed to complete poverty reduction after growth had done most of the work. [12 marks]
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"China's poverty reduction was a triumph of growth, not of policy." How far do you agree? [20 marks]
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