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Why are some people in rural China poor while others are not ?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Gustafsson, Björn Gustafsson, Bjorn. Beixiaojie, Yuetan |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | This paper asks the question: "Which characteristics affect a person's poverty status in rural China in the middle of the 90s?" We use a large survey conducted from January to March 1996 for the reference year 1995 covering around 8 000 households from 19 provinces. The poverty line is set at a level of 908 yuan per year and person which results in a poverty rate of 14.9 percent. Various logistic regression models are estimated. The results show that a household's poverty status greatly depends on where the household is located. The analysis shows that the spatial variation in the poverty risk is a major explanation of why minority persons in rural China are more poverty prone than the majority. Poverty in rural China also has a demographic component and depends on what the members do, own and has command over. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.econs.ecel.uwa.edu.au/economics/links/papers/aces_gustafsson_b.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
