Eliminating Poverty Through Development in China

By: China Development Research Foundation

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Hardcover | 28 November 2008 | Edition Number 1

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In recent years China has achieved impressive economic growth, and also made remarkable progress in human development. However, contemporary China is still faced with the great challenge of widespread poverty. This not only constitutes a barrier against China's pursuit of sustainable economic growth, but also poses a potential threat to China's attempts to construct a harmonious society in the future. This book, written by three renowned poverty-reduction experts under the aegis of the China Development Research Foundation - one of China's leading think-tanks - and drawing on the research of over twenty of China's top scholars in this field, examines China's efforts to eliminate poverty through development. It analyses all of the key issues, providing a review of China's past record in poverty alleviation, comparing this with the experiences of other countries, identifying the new characteristics and trends in poverty in recent years, and discussing the factors responsible. It assesses the objectives and success of the poverty alleviation policies adopted by the Chinese government in a comprehensive way, and puts forward suggestions for policy makers. Overall, this book is a valuable account of China's own thinking on its problems of poverty, and the best ways to tackle it and achieve sustainable economic development.

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Non-Fiction Economics Development Economics & Emerging Economies Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Poverty & Unemployment Politics & Government Social Groups Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Development Studies

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. xii
List of boxes	p. xiv
Foreword	p. xv
Authors' foreword	p. xvii
List of contributors	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
A review of China's poverty and anti-poverty efforts	p. 2
Socioeconomic development and poverty reduction	p. 10
Evolution of poverty concepts and other countries' experiences	p. 17
This report's approach	p. 21
New characteristics of poverty in China today	p. 32
The absolute poverty line in China	p. 32
Poor populations in rural areas of China	p. 38
Size and geographical distribution of poor populations in urban areas	p. 51
Analysis of the causes of poverty	p. 56
An analytical framework	p. 56
Agricultural dependence and natural environmental constraints	p. 58
Human capital constraints	p. 68
Public services constraints	p. 82
Causes of urban poverty	p. 98
A brief summary of the causes of poverty	p. 102
China's poverty alleviation policies: goals and impacts	p. 108
Main poverty alleviation policies and their characteristics	p. 108
The effects of poverty alleviation policies in rural areas	p. 122
The poverty alleviation effects of anti-poverty policies in urban areas	p. 184
Conclusive evaluation of China's anti-poverty policies	p. 192
Governance and poverty alleviation	p. 197
The organization of China's poverty alleviation forces and their functions	p. 197
The Chinese Government's primary experiences in poverty alleviation	p. 205
The main problems with the Chinese Government's administrative practices for poverty alleviation	p. 208
Suggestions for poverty alleviation policies	p. 218
Establish a developmental poverty line and adjust long-term poverty alleviation objectives	p. 219
Establish a reasonable credit mechanism for poverty alleviation and define the financial sector's participation	p. 220
Establish and completely implement the social security system for rural and urban areas	p. 221
Support the drive for urbanization, and provide social security and public services to migrants from rural areas working in urban areas	p. 222
Provide fairer educational opportunities	p. 224
Provide more intensive training to rural labourers on employment, occupational skills and labour transfers	p. 226
Improve rural medical services	p. 226
Establish a reasonable public finance-assisted poverty alleviation mecanism and reinforce governmental oversight	p. 227
Expand the role played by non-governmental organizations in poverty alleviation	p. 228
In conclusion	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 243
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