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Reducing Inequality for Shared
 Growth in China : Strategy and Policy Options for Guangdong ProvinceThis overview summarizes the key
 findings of the eight chapters and one policy note. It is
 organized as follows. The first section provides a
 background of Guangdong, while the second describes the
 current situation of inequality in the province. Next is a
 discussion of the potential impacts of the transfer of
 industrial activities ('industrial transfer') in
 mitigating regional disparity, followed by the
 recommendation of a three pillar strategy for Guangdong. The
 fifth section focuses on the elimination of absolute poverty
 through the minimum living allowance (Dibao) system, and the
 sixth turns to policy actions needed to increase
 opportunities for the rural population by moving them to
 jobs, increasing their access to finance, and ensuring that
 their land rights are better protected. The seventh section
 further assesses Guangdong's options for investing in
 people through more equitable service delivery in compulsory
 education, skill development, and health care, with the aim
 of enhancing the capacity of the poor to seize and utilize
 opportunities. The last section concludes this overview.
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Reducing Inequality for Shared Growth in China : Strategy and Policy Options for Guangdong ProvinceThis overview summarizes the key findings of the eight chapters and one policy note. It is organized as follows. The first section provides a background of Guangdong, while the second describes the current situation of inequality in the province. Next is a discussion of the potential impacts of the transfer of industrial activities ('industrial transfer') in mitigating regional disparity, followed by the recommendation of a three pillar strategy for Guangdong. The fifth section focuses on the elimination of absolute poverty through the minimum living allowance (Dibao) system, and the sixth turns to policy actions needed to increase opportunities for the rural population by moving them to jobs, increasing their access to finance, and ensuring that their land rights are better protected. The seventh section further assesses Guangdong's options for investing in people through more equitable service delivery in compulsory education, skill development, and health care, with the aim of enhancing the capacity of the poor to seize and utilize opportunities. The last section concludes this overview.
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The Poverty Focus of Country ProgramsThe World Bank Group in 2013 made the elimination of extreme poverty by 2030 a central institutional focus and purpose. This evaluation examines how, and how well, the Bank Group has focused its support on poverty reduction over the past decade, and what lessons to draw from this moving forward. The lessons aim to strengthen the Bank’s country diagnostics, improve the design of country strategies, and build greater learning opportunities from program experience. Using country case studies, surveys, focus group meetings, systematic reviews of Bank products, and other instruments, the evaluation examines the consistency of poverty focus in each of four links in a causal chain: data, diagnostics, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation through lending and nonlending instruments. It reviews the adequacy of the information base and usefulness of the analytical underpinnings that support country strategy formulation and implementation. It also evaluates the consistency of the poverty focus throughout the evaluation chain and the strength and weakness of feedback loops.