1st Edition
Poverty and Development in China Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment
By Caizhen Lu
Copyright 2012
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking: who is poor in China? Lu Caizhen’s research compares four approaches to poverty assessment: China’s official poverty identification... Read more
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
Biography
Caizhen Lu is a Researcher at the World Agroforestry Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
