Caizhen Lu

Poverty and Development in China

Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment

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Produktbeschreibung

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? The author uses five alternative recognition approaches - monetary, capabilities, participatory, social exclusion, and multidimensional - and applies them to the same population of households in Yunnan Province in order to make explicit valid comparisons and deductions about the impact of different approaches on poverty identification and measurement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780415618229
• ISBN-10: 0415618223
• Artikelnr.: 32023153

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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