What matters for the overall reduction of multidimensional poverty? Evidence from rural China

ABSTRACT

This paper provides a monitoring on the reduction of multidimensional poverty in rural China from 2010 to 2016. The results indicate that significant overall alleviation is observed in the rural China. After decomposing poverty reduction through Shapley method, dimensional and regional breakdown, this paper captures the factors contributing to the overall alleviation of multidimensional poverty in rural China: the decrease of poverty incidence, rather than the reduction of poverty intensity; the improvement in the dimensions of education and living standards; and the obvious alleviation of poverty in Western China.

KEYWORDS:

• Multidimensional poverty
• AF methodology
• dual-cut-off approach
• poverty decompositions
• rural China

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• I32
• O18

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

The research is funded by the Youth Project for Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education of China (No. 19YJC790188) and Beijing Technology and Business University 2019 Young Teacher Research Startup Fund Project (No.PXM2019_014213_000007).