传统农业经济转型的路径选择:对中国农村的能力贫困和转型路径多样性的研究

Path for the Transformation of Traditional Agricultral Economy: Capability Poverty and the Diversification of Transformation Path in China’s Rural Area

改造传统农业经济,促进传统经济向现代经济增长轨道转型是经济发展的主题之一。本文研究认为,传统经济转型的关键在于提高人的经济价值,增强人力资本投资,在物质资本与人力资本之间形成良好的匹配。传统经济转型可以沿着多种路径展开,中国农业经济整体上正处在经济起飞前夕,而农村发展的不平衡性决定了各地区农业经济转型路径的差异。农村贫困的根源不是收入或消费的匮乏,而是由于教育、社会保障、健康和机会等方面的贫困而导致的“能力贫困”。

Transforming traditional agricultural economy into modern economic growth path is the main theme of economic development. Through theoretical and empirical analysis, we find that the key to transformation is to raise the economic value of people, to improve human capital investment and to match the stocks of physicaland human capital. China’s rural economy is on the edge of economic takeoff, and differentareas’ may pursue different paths for transformation. The source of rural poverty is not the scarcity of income or consumption, but the deficiency of education, social security, medical care and opportunity, which we define as “capability poverty”.