Multidimensional Poverty and Poverty Reduction Policies in Rural China during 1995-2013

Zhan Peng1 Shen Yangyang 2 and Li Shi 3

1 School of Economics, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, Nanjing, China
2 School of Economics and Resource Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
3 Business School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Abstract :the second most prominent manifestation of poverty two decades ago – has been alleviated with public welfare improvements. In the present stage, health and healthcare are the primary difficulties facing poor farmers multidimensionally. Sub-groups such as elders, those less educated and those living in western China or in poor counties suffer from a high degree of poverty. This implies that multidimensional poverty is concentrated among the underprivileged groups and in less developed regions, whom should be policy priorities. Robustness tests suggest that the paper’s conclusion still holds after changing the proxy variables of the subdimensions, revising weights or removing some dimensions.

Keywords: pro-poor policy, multidimensional poverty, intertemporal change, robustness test

JEL Classification Codes: I32, I38, P36
DOI:1 0.19602/j .chinaeconomist.2019.3.03

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