---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ezrom Mokgakala <[email protected]> Date: 2009/2/23 Subject: Learning from China To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], "Louis M. Simelane" <[email protected]>
Learning from the East: Fighting poverty in The Peoples' Republic of China When it comes to fighting poverty, almost all the experts agree that The Peoples' Republic of China is the best place to begin. "China has set an example internationally for reducing poverty, raising hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in twenty years," said Yukon Huang, Chief of the World Bank's Resident Mission in the Peoples' Republic. The Chinese Government embarked on a poverty reduction campaign in 1978 and by 1993, the number of poor people in China was reduced from 250 million to only 80 million- a very impressive achievement indeed. With a US$35 billion support from the World Bank, the government of The Peoples' Republic of China launched a carefully planned and monitored campaign, consisting of over 220 projects scartered around the country-side to address the problem of poverty. Although many western experts believe that China's success comes from her abondoning the Socialist path of development, especially after the celebrated failure of The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution and that it was easy for China to pick up the pieces left by these canpaigns to fight poverty, it is the experience from these campaigns that made possible for China to succeed in fighting poverty among her people. It is my contention that Africans who want to learn how to fight poverty from the Peoples' Republic, especially those who call themselves Africanists, must start by learning about the Peasant Revolts of feudal China, the Great Proletranian Revolution, the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward. Ezrom Serame Mokgakala -- “I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.” Sankara --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.geocities.com/paycoonline //panafricanist.blogspot.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
