CHINA’s success with its national poverty eradication programme lies in the short time the country has taken to achieve its goal, says Universiti Malaya’s Social Wellbeing Research Centre director Emeritus Prof Datuk Norma Mansor.
Norma, who is also Malaysian Economic Association president, said Malaysia had a similar journey when it launched the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1970 to fight rural poverty through agricultural development.
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