Who is poor in China? A comparison of alternative approaches to poverty assessment in Rural Yunnan

doi:10.1080/03066151003595242

	Who is poor in China? A comparison of alternative approaches to poverty assessment in Rural Yunnan
	Lu Caizhen
	2010
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
卷号	37 期号:2 页码:407-428
摘要	Despite widespread recognition of the multidimensionality of poverty among social scientists and policymakers, the monetary approach still dominates poverty assessment. However, it is possible that different poverty assessment methodologies identify dissimilar households as poor, leading to disparate policies for poverty reduction. This empirical research applies four approaches to poverty identification to the same population of rural households in Wuding County, Yunnan Province, PRC. These approaches include China's official poverty identification method, participatory poverty assessment (PPA), the monetary approach to poverty assessment, and use of multidimensional poverty indicators (MDI). This study discovered that these four approaches generate different aggregate poverty incidences, identifying different households with distinctly different characteristics as poor. Each approach evaluates different aspects and dimensions, highlighting some characteristics while concealing others. There is very little overlap among the poor households identified by each methodology. This has implications at the conceptual, methodological, and policy levels. The conceptual understanding of poverty should be broadened to include multidimensional and multidisciplinary socioeconomic indicators. Multiple approaches must be applied in order to avoid marginalising some aspects of poverty. Poverty reduction strategies should shift from promoting short-term income-generating activities to a broader combination of strategies that address the inter-linked structural causes of poverty.
关键词	Poverty Assessment Poor Alternative Approaches China Asia
DOI	10.1080/03066151003595242
收录类别	SSCi
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000277586800006
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/23914
专题	资源植物与生物技术所级重点实验室
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Ctr Mt Ecosyst Studies, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lu Caizhen. Who is poor in China? A comparison of alternative approaches to poverty assessment in Rural Yunnan[J]. JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES,2010,37(2):407-428.
APA	Lu Caizhen.(2010).Who is poor in China? A comparison of alternative approaches to poverty assessment in Rural Yunnan.JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES,37(2),407-428.
MLA	Lu Caizhen."Who is poor in China? A comparison of alternative approaches to poverty assessment in Rural Yunnan".JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES 37.2(2010):407-428.

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