TAN Xuewen

What strategies do developing countries adopt to eliminate poverty and achieve prosperity? How do international donors help developing countries achieve the above goals? These two issues some call the “white man’s burden.” The World Bank has proposed a "three-pillar" poverty reduction strategy for the 2030 poverty eradication goal, which has been widely recognized. However, the "three pillars" are actually based on "limited government" and include assumptions such as "sustained macroeconomic growth", "efficient markets" and "national homogeneity", which are not applicable to a considerable number of developing countries. Based on China's poverty reduction experience, this article proposes a "four-pillar" poverty eradication strategy conditioned on "active government" and clarifies the government's active role in promoting economic growth and special anti-poverty actions, in order to solve the "white man's burden". one question. The "three pillars" or "four pillars" do not involve external aid. The solution to the second problem of the "white man's burden" is embedded aid - development aid that includes external resources and knowledge should be organically embedded in the independent development strategy of the recipient country. , to promote the effective operation of the "four pillars". Based on the review of the effectiveness of China's foreign poverty reduction aid cooperation, it is found that developing countries do not have autonomy in poverty reduction strategies and national governance, and international aid has not been effectively embedded. Suggestions were made on how developing countries can effectively establish a strategic framework for poverty reduction and how to achieve organic embedding of external aid, and discussed how China can further improve and optimize its foreign poverty reduction aid cooperation.