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At the start of the 1990s the number of rural inhabitants living on or below the poverty line was estimated at 70 million. Cf. K.H. Moinuddin, Poverty in the People's Republic of China: Recent Developments and Scope for Bank Assistance. Asian Development Bank, Manila 1992.
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Although this merely represents an acceleration of a trend which has been observed for more than 150 years. As early as the beginning of the 1970s, A. Donnithorne pointed out that — in contrast to the Japanese tax reform of 1873 — in China not a single regime had been able to raise central government's share of fiscal revenue since the end of the last imperial dynasty. Cf. A. Donnithorne, The Budget and the Plan in China. In: Contemporary China Papers No. 3; Canberra 1972, p. 15.
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Hagemann, E. PR China: Still no lasting stabilisation of the overheated economy. Economic Bulletin 31, 19–24 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02233802
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