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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (35): 297-303.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.2014-2159

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Fiscal Decentralization, Pro-poor Spending and Poverty Reduction

  

  • Received:2014-08-07 Revised:2014-12-23 Accepted:2014-09-30 Online:2015-03-18 Published:2015-03-18

Abstract: Based on poverty research and analysis, the article suggests that there is a larger number of people whose income hovering at the poverty line, and these people lack effective means to get out of poverty. Among some Chinese regions, and between urban and rural areas, there are significant differences in temporarily poverty rates. Through some researches and analysis base on the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data, we conduct researches to test that assumption. The results show that: (1) among the effective samples we get from CHNS, 25.87% of the households has been in temporarily poverty and the temporarily poverty rate is much larger than the samples of long-term poverty rates; (2) based on comparisons, temporarily poverty rate of economically backward areas and some rural areas is higher than that in developed regions and urban areas. Finally, the paper proposes some policies that based on the results of this study: (1) enhancing the efforts to eliminate capability poverty, particularly by providing free training of intermediate application technologies and skills; (2) continue to promote the integration of policies, which should focus on less developed areas and economic development in rural areas.