Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …

implications – The findings suggest that poverty lines for rural China preferably should consider not only spatial differences in … household members. The paper also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate … to what has been previously reported. Design/methodology/approach – The Subjective Poverty Line (SPL) methodology is …

implications – The findings suggest that poverty lines for rural China preferably should consider not only spatial differences in … household members. The paper also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate … to what has been previously reported. Design/methodology/approach – The Subjective Poverty Line (SPL) methodology is …

(NSC) development at county level in China, and by which to evaluate the level of NSC construction among different regions … in China. Then, some problems of rural development can be found and corresponding measures can be proposed, which could … index system was used to evaluate the level of NSC construction in 28 counties of China in 2007. Finally, we calculated …