The present paper describes the current urban poverty situation, examines the factors affecting the probability of a household being in poverty and investigates how the urban minimum living standard guarantee （dibao...The present paper describes the current urban poverty situation, examines the factors affecting the probability of a household being in poverty and investigates how the urban minimum living standard guarantee （dibao） program helps poor people to get out of poverty. The targeting efficiency of the urban dibao program is discussed. The present study finds that the poverty rate of households with unemployed workers is much higher than that of households without unemployed workers. The urban dibao program is helpful in reducing poverty rates, but it does not reduce poverty rates too much. The government should place emphasis on helping laid-off and unemployed workers to become reemployed. The most urgent problem for the dibao program is improving the efficiency of targeting.展开更多
Despite fast development, many residents in Chinese cities struggle to find a decent life When talking about poverty in China, people tend to conjure up images of farmers struggling in remote mountain villages or in t...Despite fast development, many residents in Chinese cities struggle to find a decent life When talking about poverty in China, people tend to conjure up images of farmers struggling in remote mountain villages or in the arid lands of the far west. Yet behind their gleaming skyscrapers展开更多
Clarifying the formation mechanism of poor settlements is the " pathological" basis for urban regeneration and poverty governance.On the basis of scientific determination of 155 poor settlements in Lanzhou C...Clarifying the formation mechanism of poor settlements is the " pathological" basis for urban regeneration and poverty governance.On the basis of scientific determination of 155 poor settlements in Lanzhou City,this paper classified their types and analyzed the characteristics of their quantity distribution and density distribution. From the perspective of spatial and social interaction,and combined the internal factors and external factors,this paper put forward the formation mechanism of poor settlements,namely,superposition of unit society collapse and physical environment degradation,interaction between differentiation of residents' income and reform of housing institution,interweaving between urban discontinuous planning and jumping construction,coupling between passive urbanization and active urbanization,and derivation of lagged economic development and unique regional culture.展开更多
Ⅰ. IntroductionPoverty has generally been perceived as a ruralphenomenon in China. However, urban poverty hasbecome a vital issue since 1995 with the re-structuringof public-owned enterprises. Even officiall statisti...Ⅰ. IntroductionPoverty has generally been perceived as a ruralphenomenon in China. However, urban poverty hasbecome a vital issue since 1995 with the re-structuringof public-owned enterprises. Even officiall statisticsconfirm that the total number of unemployed workersplus xiagang(laid-off)workers reached a figure of some展开更多
文摘The present paper describes the current urban poverty situation, examines the factors affecting the probability of a household being in poverty and investigates how the urban minimum living standard guarantee （dibao） program helps poor people to get out of poverty. The targeting efficiency of the urban dibao program is discussed. The present study finds that the poverty rate of households with unemployed workers is much higher than that of households without unemployed workers. The urban dibao program is helpful in reducing poverty rates, but it does not reduce poverty rates too much. The government should place emphasis on helping laid-off and unemployed workers to become reemployed. The most urgent problem for the dibao program is improving the efficiency of targeting.
文摘Despite fast development, many residents in Chinese cities struggle to find a decent life When talking about poverty in China, people tend to conjure up images of farmers struggling in remote mountain villages or in the arid lands of the far west. Yet behind their gleaming skyscrapers
基金Supported by Young Scholar Project of Humanities and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education(14YJCZH212)
文摘Clarifying the formation mechanism of poor settlements is the " pathological" basis for urban regeneration and poverty governance.On the basis of scientific determination of 155 poor settlements in Lanzhou City,this paper classified their types and analyzed the characteristics of their quantity distribution and density distribution. From the perspective of spatial and social interaction,and combined the internal factors and external factors,this paper put forward the formation mechanism of poor settlements,namely,superposition of unit society collapse and physical environment degradation,interaction between differentiation of residents' income and reform of housing institution,interweaving between urban discontinuous planning and jumping construction,coupling between passive urbanization and active urbanization,and derivation of lagged economic development and unique regional culture.
文摘Ⅰ. IntroductionPoverty has generally been perceived as a ruralphenomenon in China. However, urban poverty hasbecome a vital issue since 1995 with the re-structuringof public-owned enterprises. Even officiall statisticsconfirm that the total number of unemployed workersplus xiagang(laid-off)workers reached a figure of some
