incomes is essential to reducing poverty and ensuring the benefits of growth are distributed more equally. Income growth …

incomes is essential to reducing poverty and ensuring the benefits of growth are distributed more equally. Income growth …

. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified …China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China …, literally asking: who is poor in China? Lu Caizhen's research compares four approaches to poverty assessment: China's official …

is an urgent need for this type of endeavor: whether the goal is to reduce poverty or to protect the environment, we need … and systematic planning, migration may fail to reduce poverty, and could even aggravate it. The rapid economic growth in …

This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author's work … affects rural poverty levels in developing countries. In particular the book examines what we do and do not know about risk …1. Introduction -- 2. Risk and poverty -- 3. The risk coping strategies of the rural poor -- 4. The limits to risk …