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International Efforts with The World Bank

Since 1981, China has used the World Bank as a resource to improve conditions for China's poor. $40,534, 000,000 (USD) have been lent to the Chinese government under the guidance of 274 specific projects. The World Bank does not merely give financial assistance to China, but requires of all it's recipiants a detailed plan, which helps to guarantee efficiency. The World Bank has funded programs to help "transportation, urban development, rural development, energy, and human development. Transport projects focus on connecting the poorer inner provinces to the dynamic coast; urban projects focus on urban transport, sustainable water supply, and sanitation; and energy projects on meeting the economy's growing power needs. "

The World Bank has created a plan for China and has lent China $247.5 (USD) million for the Poverty Reduction Project Yunnan and Guizhou.

Country Partnership Strategy with the World Bank

Chinese Programs

Some critics of the World Bank claim that China's own programs have been more succesful than the assitance of the World Bank. However, they still admit that China has made significant progress, perhaps even enough progress to improve international poverty. "Overall, from 1990 to 2002, the percentage of the world's people who subsist on less than $1 per day declined from 28 to 19, according to World Bank research. But officials with the evaluation group noted that much of the advance was registered in China, which has rejected many of the tenets of the development model advocated by the West and barely relied on the largesse of the World Bank. 'If you take out China, the numbers would be unfavorable.'"

"Since 1995, the Chinese government has spent 10 billion yuan ($1.2 USD) on compulsory education in poverty stricken areas", and has also spent a significant amount of money on re-employment projects, heath care and various types of insurance for those in poverty, including unemployment insurance.

NGO's, like the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, work with programs like MercyCorps and the government, to provide elementary and middle schools, microfinance credit, housing, drinking water, and encourage rural economies like mushroom farming, among other programs.