Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?

By T. Glauben, Thomas Herzfeld, Scott Rozelle, Xiaobing Wang. 2012

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Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the poverty line and inter-regional differences across provinces. Results suggest that the majority of population seems to be only temporary poor. However, the probability to leave poverty for those who were poor is differently affected by poverty duration across provinces ranging from no duration dependence in Zhejiang to highly significant duration dependence in Yunnan. The number of nonworking family members, education, and several village characteristics seem to be the most important covariates.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. Yan-sui Liu
2. Yang Zhou
3. Yuanzhi Guo
4. Yurui Li
5. Wenxiang Wu
6. Sangui Wang
7. Hualou Long
8. Hein de Haas

In Safety Research

1. Yan-sui Liu
2. Yang Zhou
3. Yurui Li
4. Yuanzhi Guo
5. Wenxiang Wu

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Yan-sui Liu
2. Yang Zhou
3. Yuanzhi Guo
4. Yurui Li
5. Wenxiang Wu
6. Jilai Liu
7. Hein de Haas

Citations in the corpus

• Spatio-temporal patterns of rural poverty in China and targeted poverty alleviation strategies (2017, background): “, 2012; Ward, 2016), the causes of poverty (Jalan and Ravallion, 2000; Glauben et al., 2012; Wu et al., 2015), anti-poverty targets (Park et al.”
• China’s poverty alleviation over the last 40 years: successes and challenges (2019, background): “Introduction Eliminating poverty is a challenge faced by every country in the world (Bapna 2012; Glauben et al. 2012; Imai and You 2014; Tollefson 2015; Liu et al. 2017).”
• Targeted poverty alleviation and land policy innovation: Some practice and policy implications from China (2018, background): “…Ravallion, 2000; Chen and Ravallion, 2007; Duclos et al., 2010; Glauben et al., 2012; Ward, 2016), the causes of poverty (Jalan and Ravallion, 2000; Glauben et al., 2012; Wu et al., 2005), vulnerability to poverty (McCulloch and Calandrino, 2003; Ward, 2016; Cao et al., 2016), multi-dimensional…”