Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director of the China Center for Social Policy at Columbia University, spoke on the BBC World Service's "More or Less" February 2, 2018 radio program about China's plan to eliminate poverty by 2020. The program asks: How does China measure poverty and is it possible for them to make sure, over the next few years, that no … [Read more...]

Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Centre for Social Policy, at Columbia University, discussed her recently published book Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China (Oxford University Press, 2017) on the Council on Foreign Relations' December 8, 2017 podcast "Eradicating Poverty in China—An Impossible Task?" Professor Gao's … [Read more...]

Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Center for Social Policy, at Columbia University, was quoted in the November 26, 2017 South China Morning Post article "Tales from Beijing and Hong Kong Show Challenge of Fighting Poverty, Especially Among Working Poor." Professor Gao, a leading expert on social policy in China, told the newspaper that … [Read more...]

In November 2017, Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Centre for Social Policy, at Columbia University, discussed her recently published book Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China (Oxford University Press, 2017) with Sinovision and with the Association for Asian Studies' Asia Now blog. Professor Gao's book provides the … [Read more...]