How China Lifted 800 Million People Out of Poverty (EN)

Friday, 10th of July - 14:00 - 17:00

Ileana Chan

Language: English (translation provided)

"Historically unprecedented," is how the World Bank describes the scale and speed with which China lifted 800 million people out of poverty. But how the country achieved this is little known in the West. Yet it reveals much about China's political and economic model. Is there anything we can learn from it in the struggle for a world without poverty and exploitation? Find out more in this lesson.

Ileana Chan is a producer at Empire Watch, an anti-imperialist media platform. She specializes in China's place in the Global South and the world.