Young China Scholars Poverty Research Network

Cananda's IDRC in partnership with CIGI has helped build a pioneering research network on poverty and inequality in China

For the past three years, Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), in partnership with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), has helped to build a research network on poverty in China – the first of its kind in the world’s fastest-growing economy.

The goal has been to support promising young scholars and encourage fresh thinking in an area of increasing concern to China: the rising inequality that has accompanied high economic growth.

The achievements are heartening, as a remarkable group of senior Chinese and international economists helps mentor a new generation of scholars undertaking applied research on poverty and inequality in China.

As China enters the fourth decade of broad economic reforms, research findings and analysis provided by the Young China Scholars Poverty Research Network are helping to inform public policy discussions in China, as well as Canadian interactions with China.

Learn more about this successful Canada-China collaboration (click on link below):

"A strong competition"
Two-way learning
Declining poverty, rising inequality
Fresh insights
Mapping the network
One scholar's story
On the world stage
The CHIP surveys
"We chose the mentors carefully"
"The good work is collaborative"
The network evolves

Published: 11 Feb 2009

Contact details:

Head Office
Mailing address PO Box 8500, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1G 3H9

Asia
208 Jor Bagh, New Delhi 110003, India
Phone: (+91-11) 2461-9411

Latin America and the Caribbean:
Juncal 1385, Piso 14
11000 Montevideo, Uruguay
Phone: (+598) 2915-0492

Middle East and North Africa 
Zahran Gate Complex Suite 302,
25 Ismael Haqqi Abdo Street,
Amman, Jordan

Sub-Saharan Africa
PO Box 62084 00200, Nairobi, Kenya

Street address: Eaton Place, 3rd floor
United Nations Crescent, Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya
Phone: (+254) 709-074000

+1 613 236 6163
Country: 
News topics: 
Content type: