TY - JOUR
T1 - Disparities in the level of poverty in China
T2 - evidence from China Family Panel Studies 2010
AU - Yang, Jing
AU - Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - This paper uses the Dual Cut-offs Approach to measure multidimensional poverty in China at the national, rural-urban, regional and provincial levels using the China Family Panel Studies data from 2010. Five dimensions and thirteen indicators are considered for the enumeration of poverty. It is observed that irrespective of cut-offs and weights, rural poverty in China is three to nine times of urban poverty. Social insurance, toilet and cooking fuel are the major indicators contributing to both rural and urban poverty. More urban households in the Western region are deprived, but urban poor households are deprived in more indicators in the Central region, and some Eastern provinces are poorer than some of the Central provinces. Furthermore, the paper identifies the provinces that contribute most to national poverty levels and finds the sources of poverty in those provinces.
AB - This paper uses the Dual Cut-offs Approach to measure multidimensional poverty in China at the national, rural-urban, regional and provincial levels using the China Family Panel Studies data from 2010. Five dimensions and thirteen indicators are considered for the enumeration of poverty. It is observed that irrespective of cut-offs and weights, rural poverty in China is three to nine times of urban poverty. Social insurance, toilet and cooking fuel are the major indicators contributing to both rural and urban poverty. More urban households in the Western region are deprived, but urban poor households are deprived in more indicators in the Central region, and some Eastern provinces are poorer than some of the Central provinces. Furthermore, the paper identifies the provinces that contribute most to national poverty levels and finds the sources of poverty in those provinces.
KW - ADB
KW - China Health and Nutrition Survey
KW - Multidimensional poverty
KW - PRC
KW - Rural
KW - Urban
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84954192929&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11205-016-1228-2
DO - 10.1007/s11205-016-1228-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84954192929
SN - 0303-8300
VL - 132
SP - 411
EP - 450
JO - Social Indicators Research
JF - Social Indicators Research
IS - 1
ER -