‘Poverty plagues human development’

ELIMINATING poverty is the common aspiration of people all over the world and the goal of governments and international institutions engaged in development work, a Chinese professor has said.

Delivering a lecture on the Successes and Experience of Poverty Alleviation in China in Changsha, Hunan province, Song Xiaoping, from the Hunan International Business Vocational College, said his country had adopted a multi-pronged approach in fighting poverty.

“Poverty is a major problem that plagues human development .

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