A longitudinal study of multidimensional poverty in rural China from 2010 to 2018

Zhao Zhang, Caoyuan Ma and Aiping Wang

Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 204, issue C

Abstract: According to the capability approach, multidimensional poverty is both a concept and a measure used to depict the poor who are deprived in multiple dimensions. This article provides a longitudinal perspective for monitoring multidimensional poverty in rural China using panel data from 2010 to 2018. The poverty tracking analyses and measurements capture a dramatic reduction in the overall multidimensional poverty in rural China, mainly due to the incidence effect rather than the intensity effect. It should be noted that some households that experience chronic multidimensional poverty and the durations of deprivation in regard to education contribute the most among all 8 indicators. Moreover, the estimation results of multidimensional poverty are robust, and the level of multidimensional poverty in rural China has indeed improved over the past years.

Keywords: Multidimensional poverty; Chronic poverty; A-F method; Bootstrap method; Rural china (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 O18 P36 Q10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109912

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