China Household Finance SurveyChinese General Social SurveyChinese Household Income ProjectKnowledge of poverty prevalence is essential for any society concerned with improving public welfare and reducing poverty. In this paper, we estimate and compare poverty incidence rates in China using four nationally ...
As poverty rates decline and extreme poverty comes to the fore, the utility of the same-level interventions would diminish, thus many governments would reduce funding. Yet, in the "last mile" of China's anti-poverty fight, China has sustained and even increased its poverty alleviation funding,...
Peter Potman, Director of the Asia-Pacific Department at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, noted that "China has reached the Millennium Development Goal target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half -- contributing to poverty reduction globally, and setting an example for developing coun...
Mapping climate vulnerability and poverty in Africa The world's climate is continuing to change at rates that are projected to be unprecedented in recent human history. Some models are now indicating that th... P Thornton,P Jones,T Owiyo,... - 《Mapping Climate Vulnerability & Poverty in ...
Social Polarisation and Poverty in the Global City: The Case of Hong Kong Unlike the poverty in the developing world which is more likely associated with undevelopment or underdevelopment of industrial capitalism, the new poverty... Lee, K.-m.,H Wong,Law, K.-y. - 《China Report》 被引量...
Bank estimates that COVID-19 could push 70-100 million people back into extreme poverty globally (measured at the international poverty line of $1.90 per day). A large share of the new extreme poor will also be concentrated in countries that are already struggling with high poverty rates ...
Socio-economic determinants of suicide rates in transforming China: A spatial-temporal analysis from 1990 to 2015 2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific Show abstract Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China ...
Fig. 9.Old-age poverty rates.u Source: OECD (2015a). Pensions at a Glance, OECD, Paris. In order to protect these households from poverty at older ages, governments in many countries provide a tax-financed minimum pension for households who have accumulated savings below a certain threshold...
Health service needs, utilization, medical expenses, and reimbursement rates were analyzed and compared between 2013 and 2018, between the poor and the non-poor groups.Results People living in poverty were usually elderly, illiterate, and unemployed. The poor people had a significantly higher two-...
It implies that the objective poverty line in China and the World Bank cannot well mirror the welfare level of rural households in China, given continuously high economic growth rates in the past 40 years. Table 3 Subjective poverty standard in rural China Full size table Table 3 also shows ...