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Poverty and Anti‐Poverty Programmes in Rural China Since the Mid‐1980s
Author(s) -
Guan Xinping
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9515.1995.tb00465.x
Subject(s) - poverty , china , culture of poverty , basic needs , development economics , rural poverty , economic growth , action (physics) , rural area , political science , economics , physics , quantum mechanics , law
This paper reviews the characteristics of poverty in rural China, focussing on regional absolute poverty in particular. It comments on the different types of explanation put forward by researchers to account for the incidence and persistence of this type of poverty and argues that governmental anti‐poverty programmes must take more than economic factors into account if they are to be fully effective. There is discussion of existing governmental anti‐poverty practices and of the latest proposals for reform. The paper concludes by offering further suggestions for the future in respect of both anti‐poverty action and research.