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Thanks to years of spectacular growth, more people have been pulled from abject poverty in modern Asia than at any other time in history.

To decide how much the Mapuches are owed and the best way to help them emerge from their poverty, Chile urgently needs a national debate.

For decades, India's sprawling and inefficient bureaucracy has spent billions of dollars to try to drag the poor out of poverty.

and it imports capital to help lift its people out of poverty, registering growth of 8 per cent or so a year.

China's economic development has lifted more people out of poverty than any other nation in modern history.

'A fall in the number of poor of this magnitude over such a short period is without historical precedent, ' the authors write.

No economy in history has lifted more people out of poverty in a shorter period of time than China has within the last two decades.

Yet countries do escape poverty, and do not always grow more peaceable in the process.

The World Bank's Mr. Dollar says that China does offer sound lessons for other countries trying to escape poverty.