Measurement of Rural Inclusive Financial Development and Analysis of Spatial Effects on Anti-poverty

Based on two dimensions of supply and demand,we use six indicators to establish a rural inclusive financial development index and evaluate the development of China's rural inclusive finance. We use spatial panel data model to examine the relationship between financial inclusion and rural poverty. Results show that:( i) both the rural inclusive finance and rural residents' per capita consumption present spatial clustering feature and show significant spatial correlation;( ii) the development of rural inclusive finance has significant spatial effect on poverty alleviation along time and space dimensions. In this study,the paper puts forward policy recommendations on strengthening the rural financial resources flow and constructing diversified rural inclusive financial system.

The Realistic Dilemma and Countermeasures of Anti-poverty Industrial-capacity Cooperation Between China and Africa

Poverty eradication is an important goal of African social development.China has always attached great importance to exchanges and cooperation with African countries in the field of poverty reduction and with the deepening of the practice and understanding of China-Africa anti-poverty cooperation,industrial-capacity cooperation has become a new theme of poverty reduction and development in China-Africa cooperation at the 2016 Forum on China Africa Cooperation(FOCAC)—Africa-China Poverty Reduction and Development Conference.Through combing and analysis of relevant literature and data,we found that China-Africa industrial-capacity cooperation,which is based on infrastructure construction,industrial park construction and trade exchanges,has played an important role in poverty reduction and development in African countries by facilitating industrialization and agricultural modernization,enhancing endogenous motivation for poverty alleviation,and improving the sustainable livelihood of poor people.At present,in the practice of anti-poverty industrial-capacity cooperation between China and Africa,there are still difficulties such as weak anti-poverty foundation and cooperation paths yet to be optimized.Meanwhile,it is also faced with a series of risks and challenges such as intensified international competition.In order to improve the cooperation between China and Africa,promote anti-poverty benefits,optimize the implementation paths,and better solve the dilemma of cooperation,we put forward relevant countermeasures and suggestions from the four dimensions of government,enterprises,think tanks and people.

Anti-Poverty Cooperation between China and West Asian and North African Countries in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative

As important parts of the Belt and Road Initiative,West Asia and North Africa have rich resources and prominent strategic position.Anti-poverty has always been a crucial social issue of China,West Asia and North Africa. Through literature review and data analysis,this paper analyzed the current situations of anti-poverty in West Asia and North Africa and the causes of poverty,and objectively summarized the realistic foundation of anti-poverty cooperation between China and West Asian and North African countries. On the basis of current situations,it put forward a path for anti-poverty cooperation between China and West Asian and North African countries,in the hope of providing decisionmaking basis and policy recommendations for China to undertake anti-poverty cooperation in the worldwide range.

A Study on Status Assessment and Path Optimization for China-Africa Anti-poverty Cooperation

Anti-Poverty has long been a major challenge facing both China and Africa. China-Africa anti-poverty cooperation has seen rapid progress since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, particularly following reform and opening-up, acquiring some good practices and lessons. However, there have also been problems and new challenges. Based on a review and analysis of relevant domestic and foreign literature published in recent years, this paper provides a summary of the realities, achievements, difficulties and challenges facing the China-Africa anti-poverty cooperation. Then building on this, the authors offer some suggestions on top-level design, cooperation mechanisms, path optimization and safeguard measures in anti-poverty cooperation.

Women in China's Anti-Poverty campaigns

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China Steps Up Anti-poverty Effort in Arid Western Areas

China＇s State Council, or the cabinet, has decided to further extend a program that involves special funds for infrastructure and other projects in three particularly add and poor areas in the country＇s remote northwest. While extending the program from 2009 to 2015, the government also decided to raise the annual total funding from 200 million yuan （29.2 million U.S. dollars） to 300 million yuan.

Geographical patterns and anti-poverty targeting post-2020 in China

Poverty has been a focus of Chinese government for a long time. It is therefore of great significance to investigate both the mechanisms and spatial patterns of regional impoverishment in order to adequately target Chinese anti-poverty goals. Based on the human-environment relationship and multidimensional poverty theory, this study initially develops a three-dimensional model encompassing human, society, and environmental factors to investigate the mechanisms of rural impoverishment as well as to construct an indicator system to evaluate the comprehensive poverty level(CPL) in rural areas. A back propagation neural network model was then applied to measure CPL, and standard deviation classification was used to identify counties that still require national policy-support(CRNPSs) subsequent to 2020. The results of this study suggest that CPL values conform to a decreasing trend from the southeast coast towards the inland northwest of China. Data also show that 716 CRNPSs will be present after 2020, mainly distributed in high-arid areas of the Tibetan Plateau, the transitional zones of the three-gradient terrain, as well as karst areas of southwest China. Furthermore, CRNPSs can be divided into four types, that is, key aiding counties restricted by multidimensional factors, aiding counties restricted by human development ability, aiding counties restricted by both natural resource endowment and socioeconomic development level, and aiding counties restricted by both human development ability and socioeconomic development level. We therefore propose that China should develop and adopt scientific and targeted strategies to relieve the relative poverty that still exist subsequent to 2020.

Measurement and Decomposition of the Promoting Factors on China’s Rural Anti-Poverty Performance:1978-2014

By using China Yearbook of Household Survey and CHIPS’we measure,decompose,and test the pushing factors of rural anti-poverty’s performance.We find that the rural poverty rate fell,which benefited from the endogenous reform of land policy from 1978 to 1985,and from 1986 to 1993,China’s rural poverty rate was still falling rapidly,when economic growth played a leading role,but the marginal revenue was falling.Although rural areas had implemented development-oriented poverty relief and social relief during the period from 1994 to 2000,the poverty rate decline was not large,because negative effects from redistribution offset the contribution from economic growth.China’s rural poverty rate was rising slightly from 2001 to 2014,because the positive contribution from economic growth was falling and the effects from income distribution originated from poverty reduction aiming mechanism were low,which led to a falling composite contribution rate.Throughout the 30 years’strategy and path of anti-poverty,we find that economic growth has been playing the dominant role,and as the poverty rate and poverty gap rebound,the contribution from income distribution and redistribution in reducing poverty will rise.The government should increase investment in rural public products and public services to optimize the path and strategy of rural anti-poverty.

Eco-tourism: A New Approach of Ecological Rehabilitation and Out of Poverty Development in Wumeng Mountainous Area

The economic and social development status and the formation mechanism of "poverty trap" in Wumeng mountainous area were analyzed, the feasibility of developing eco-tourism to ecological restoration and rural poverty reduction was discussed, and some corresponding countermeasures were put forward.

Multi-scale Spatial Patterns and Influencing Factors of Rural Poverty:A Case Study in the Liupan Mountain Region, Gansu Province, China

The important role of spatial scale in exploring the geography of poverty as well as its policy implications has been noticed but with limited knowledge. To improve such limited understanding, we mainly investigated the spatial patterns and influencing factors of rural poverty(indicated by poor population and poverty incidence) at three different administrative levels in the Liupan Mountain Region, one of the fourteen poorest regions in China. Our results show that from a global perspective, poor areas are clustered significantly at the county-, township-, and village-level, and more greatly at a lower level. Locally, there is spatial mismatch among poverty hotspots detected not only by the same indicator at different levels but also by different indicators at the same level. A scale effect can be found in the influencing factors of rural poverty. That is, the number of significant factors increases, but the degree of their association with poverty incidence decreases at a lower level. Such scale effect indicates that poverty incidence at lower levels may be affected by more complex factors, including not only the new local ones but also the already appeared non-local ones at higher levels. However, the natural conditions tend to play a scale-independent role to poverty incidence. In response to such scale-dependent patterns and factors, anti-poverty policies can be 1) a multilevel monitoring system to reduce incomplete or even misleading single-level information and understanding; 2) the village-based targeting strategy to increase the targeting efficiency and alleviate the mentioned spatial mismatch; 3) more flexible strategies responding to the local impoverishing factors, and 4) different task emphasises for multilevel policymakers to achieve the common goal of poverty reduction.

How can social enterprises contribute to sustainable pro-poor tourism development?

"Tourism-Assisting the Poor" has been an important approach in anti-poverty strategy. Studies suggest that the conventional tourism model fails to generate benefits for the poor and to some extent enlarges the gap between the poor and the rich, which subsequently causes more social problems. Pro-poor tourism(PPT) is regarded as an alternative model. Precisely targeted assistance to the poor is the key to initiating this model, while the institutional change and implementation mechanism are essential to run it successfully and sustainably. Social entrepreneurship focusing on social values while adopting modern business philosophy has been introduced recently as an instrument in helping disadvantage population. This paper takes the Smangus community in Taiwan as an example to explore the role of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in PPT development. It also discusses their implications for the anti-poverty practice in other regions including ethnic areas in China.

Attitudes toward income inequality:perspectives from farmers living in a poverty-stricken rural area of China

The attitude of the least advantaged people to income inequality is important in regard to social stability,which is also a major concern of the government and researchers in China.This paper aimed to investigate the perceptions and attitudes of the least advantaged people toward income inequality in China.An empirical analysis was conducted on farmers' attitudes to income inequality based on a questionnaire survey of 308 farmers in four villages in Yingshan,Hubei Province.Our results show that the respondents consider the income inequality as severe,and ability,hard work,and individual choices are the major determinant factors of income.It is shown that farmers in less developed areas are more likely to accept income inequality,and they ascribe this to their own failure rather than to social injustice.However,it is not the case that people living in poverty-stricken areas are satisfied with antipoverty policies;and these policies are expected to be further improved to increase the income of the poor.

Research on Satisfaction of ex situ Relocated Households

Based on the survey data of ex situ relocated households in Hubei and Hunan provinces in 2017,the specific satisfaction levels of the relocated farmers in the two provinces and the influencing factors were analyzed in this paper. It is found that the ex situ relocated farmers in Hubei and Hunan provinces have higher levels of satisfaction. The satisfaction of farmers who have been relocated to poverty alleviation is obviously affected by the characteristics of relocation and support policies. Even after controlling the farmer individual characteristic variables and family characteristic variables,the relocation characteristics and support policies still have a significant impact on the satisfaction of the farmers in the anti-poverty relocation,indicating that the relocated farmers with different backgrounds have a similar understanding of the satisfaction of the ex situ anti-poverty relocation.

Rural and Urban Poverty Calls for Equal Treatment

During recent years, along with the deepening of reform and opening up to the outside world, China's poverty problem has gradually changed from a problem of rural poverty to the co-existence of rural and urban poverty. In this article, the authors review the existing poverty standards and overall poverty situation in China, and assess the performance of the state's current anti-poverty policies. In view of the main problems in existing anti-poverty policies, the authors suggest the coordinated development of urban and rural areas. Through establishing unified poverty standards, monitoring systems and anti-poverty policies, equal emphasis will be given to poverty alleviation in both areas. And the social security and employment systems in both urban and rural areas will be coordinated.

Corporate Power for Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from the Poverty Alleviation Results of Chinese Listed Companies

Government-led poverty alleviation faces multiple constraints and limitations fighting poverty,and it is urgent to mobilize social forces as many as possible,especially the involvement of corporate forces.To figure out whether corporate participation is effective to poverty alleviation and whether regional differences have an impact on it,this paper probes into results of corporate involvement in poverty alleviation,based on corporate social responsibility report information released by A-share listed companies in 2010-2017.The findings are as follows.(1)Companies in the western region,companies directly contacting consumers and large companies with good business performance are more willing to involve in poverty alleviation.(2)The participation of enterprises in poverty alleviation can increase the per capita income of rural residents,which is even better in underdeveloped areas.This revealed that social forces represented by companies have responded to China’s call of targeted poverty alleviation and fulfilled corporate social responsibilities,which will indeed help consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and lift underdeveloped areas out of poverty.From the perspective of corporate involvement in poverty alleviation,this paper extends related research on social forces and another participant in poverty alleviation,and enrich the literature on social benefits brought by companies performing social responsibilities.