Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment

ISBN-13: 9780415618229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 304 str.

Caizhen Lu

Opis

China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. This book analyses how poverty is recognised and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking who is poor in China?

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Poverty in China: Macro Perspective  3. Economy, Society and Deprivation in Yunnan  4. The Offical Poverty Identification Method: 'You Are the Poor'  5. Monetary Poverty Approach: 'They Are the Poor'  6. Participatory Poverty Assessment: 'We Are the Poor'  7. The Multidimensional Poverty Indicators: 'Who Are the Poor'  8. Conclusions and the Policy Implications of Choice of Approach from the Multiple Identifications

O autorze

Caizhen Lu is a Researcher at the World Agroforestry Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.