The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the structure of rural poverty in China. Based on data from the China … Household Income Project (CHIP) in 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013, we analyze: 1.) Anti-poverty trends and problems during the … recent three decades. 2.) The structure of poverty during the recent period in comparison with previous periods. We consider …

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine … eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing … multidimensional poverty measures (and their components) that address key participant deficits. We apply our methods to a BRAC ultra-poverty …

In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …. Multidimensional poverty rates decreased in both urban and rural areas, but imbalances remain. As well as calculating the incidence of …

This paper estimates and maps the multidimensional poverty for rural Pakistan. It uses micro data from household … surveys to construct the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) with human development indicators like education, health …, health, standard of living and wealth in the rural multidimensional poverty as overall and district levels. The results show …

Global poverty rates have declined considerably, but the number of people living in extreme poverty remains high. Many … commercialization on income poverty, but whether income gains from commercialization are really used for satisfying basic needs was … hardly analyzed up till now. Here, we evaluate the effect of commercialization on income poverty, as well as on the …

Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … poverty. Results from estimating probability models indicate that social assistance receipt is strongly linked to joblessness …

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …