China is undergoing a campaign which is called “The Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policy” to eradicate extreme poverty … from rural China until 2020. Though poverty in rural China has been studied intensively in different objective dimensions …, little attention has been paid to poverty line settings and subjective poverty, which are hinged to the policy effects. In …

examines whether, and to what degree, indicators of material deprivation, subjective poverty and subjective well-being are …

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …

This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is given of the last fifty years …