What is the nature of poverty?
Why for thousands of years, human wealth has been accumulating and increasing, but poverty still exists on a large scale.
Poverty is a common topic of human beings. According to the international poverty line of 1.9 US dollars per day, there are still more than 700 million people in the world today living below the extreme poverty line.
This episode of the program begins with "How to understand the nature of poverty". Scholars and guests at home and abroad shared their stories of going deep into the front line of poverty, introduced the experience of how to conduct poverty research, and discussed the practice of poverty alleviation in China.
What is the nature of poverty?
To get out of the poverty trap, what changes do we need to change in our way of thinking or in our culture?
What successful explorations have Chinese and foreign civilizations made in the face of poverty?
What is the world significance of China's poverty reduction practice?
This program hopes to put forward experience and suggestions on how to solve human poverty and how to achieve common prosperity through the exchange of practical experience in poverty alleviation at home and abroad.
Guests of this issue
Wen Tiejun: Chief Researcher of the Rural Revitalization Research Institute of Jinan University, Expert on Three Rural Issues
Yao Yang: Dean of the National Development Institute of Peking University, Director of the China Economic Research Center of Peking University
Abhijit Banerjee: Nobel Laureate in Economics, author of The Nature of Poverty
Dean Callan: Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University, President and Founder of Poverty Action Innovation
Responsible editor: [Li Ji]