Was that policy decision worth it? Well according to
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Accounting for the increased population between 1981 and 2005, the poverty rate has, however, fallen by about 25%.<p>While this at least sounds encouraging, it masks regional variations, and perhaps most glaringly the impact of China:<p>China’s poverty rate fell from 85% to 15.9%, or by over 600 million people
China accounts for nearly all the world’s reduction in poverty
Excluding China, poverty fell only by around 10%
&quot;&quot;&quot;<p>There has indeed been a tradeoff with pollution here which they need to fix. However, I don&#x27;t see why income inequality is a problem here. If you are starting from massive amounts of extreme poverty, then how would you possibly alleviate that without making some people wealthy?