How Tibet has Successfully Reduced Poverty

By Crystal OrdersonLHASA, Aug 22 2019 (IPS) According to the Tibet’s Social Science Academy’s Institute of Rural Economic Studies, the number of Tibetans still living in poverty has been brought down from 850,000 a few years ago to 150,000. Tibetan officials say the government is committed to reducing that number to zero by the end of this year. The post How Tibet has Successfully Reduced Poverty appeared first on Inter Press Service.
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