Reconciling the Conflicting Narratives on Poverty in China

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin

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“…The rapid growth has enabled China to help raise an estimated 800 million people out of poverty. 12 In addition to economic growth, there have been many social changes in the country, including rapid urbanization, massive internal migration, reform of state-owned enterprise, shifting social values, and dramatic demographic transition. 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 …”

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Socio-economic determinants of suicide rates in transforming China: A spatial-temporal analysis from 1990 to 2015

Cai

Chen

Ye³

et al. 2022

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific

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Background China has experienced dramatic social changes in the last three decades. This study aimed to investigate socio-economic factors related to suicide rates in China from 1990 to 2015, and examine how the impacts of these factors on suicide rates changed over time.Methods Suicide rates in 31 provinces in mainland China between 1990 and 2015 were obtained from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. Temporal-spatial modelling was applied to assess the effects of GDP per capita, urbanization, migration, employment, divorce, proportions of children and older adults on provincial overall, male and female suicide rates.Findings The overall suicide rate in China declined from 18¢1 /100,000 in 1990 to 8¢6 /100,000 in 2015, with considerable spatial variation in the magnitude of decline across provinces. The protective effects of increasing in GDP per capita, and urbanization, on provincial suicide rate were strong in 1990 (log GDP: -3¢56 [95% CI: -6¢15, -0¢96], urbanisation: -0¢07 [-0¢14, -0¢01]), however these effects were negligible by 2015. The association between employment and suicide rates has shifted from positive to negative over the study period, while migration remained a constant risk factor for high suicide rates (0¢04 [0.00, 0¢09]).Interpretation This study highlighted the dynamic effects of economic and social factors on suicide rates in the context of transforming China. To maintain further reductions in suicide rates cannot rely simply on improving people's materialistic and economic conditions. A more holistic approach to improve overall population well-being is needed.

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Socio-economic determinants of suicide rates in transforming China: A spatial-temporal analysis from 1990 to 2015

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Chen

Ye³

et al. 2022

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific

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“…equivalent to $ 0.98 per person per day (Chen and Ravallion, 2020). The line was designed to be able to afford a food basket of 2,100 calories per person, per day.…”

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“…The minimum calorie threshold was kept fixed at 2,100 but the share of non-food allowance was increased. This line would be equivalent to $1.30 per person per day in 2011 USD PPP terms (Chen and Ravallion, 2020). Finally, since 2012, under the 2010 standard households are considered poor if their annual per capita expenditure is below 2,300 yuan, expressed in 2010 values.…”

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“…Going forward, reducing inequalities in accessing quality public services as well as easing constraints on labor mobility will remain key. With the concerted effort on narrowing the gaps across individuals, more attention may be given to the barriers that may exist for children to access services of equal quality, irrespective of their 39 As documented in Ravallion and Chen (2020) as countries grow, their poverty standards increase. China is no exception, and the history of revisions in official poverty line methodology fit perfectly into this global pattern.…”

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Rural Poverty Reduction and Economic Transformation in China: A Decomposition Approach

Lugo¹,

Niu²,

Yemtsov³

2021

Policy Research Working Papers

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. Policy Research Working Paper 9849Rural poverty in China fell from 96 percent in 1980 to less than 1 percent of the population in 2019. Using PovcalNet data for China and a set of comparable countries, this paper estimates growth-poverty elasticities. It finds that China stands out for its record of sustained, fast growth, rather than because of an unusually high growth-poverty elasticity. In addition, changes in mean consumption, rather than changes in the distribution, drive poverty reduction. Furthermore, until 2010, changes in inequality attenuated the impact of growth on poverty. The paper also studies which channels mattered the most for rural poverty reduction by applying a decomposition framework to multiple rounds of Chinese Household Income Project surveys con-

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“…The HRS is also credited with a long-term, dynamic impact on the growth of agricultural productivity: 'the HRS had a significant positive effect on grain output and food supply in China, while also helping to reduce regional inequality' (Gibson, 2020: 14; on regional inequality see also Li and Gibson, 2013;Liu, 2013). Despite soaring income gaps (Whyte, 2010(Whyte, , 2014, the scale of China's reduction of extreme poverty is arguably unprecedented in human history (Ang, 2016;Chen and Ravallion, 2020;Ravallion, 2021). This is not to say that the HRS has been free of critiques.…”

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Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system

Meng

Deakin

2021

Journal of Institutional Economics

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This paper considers Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system (HRS) and offers a possible solution. China's HRS, which has evolved over the past four decades to become its dominant form of rural land ownership, has stimulated spectacular economic growth and poverty reduction; however, it is based on a type of ownership which is far removed from the property rights regime which North regarded as essential. Two features of the HRS merit attention. The first is ‘split ownership’: this refers to the allocation of different aspects of ownership, including rights of access, use, management, exclusion and alienation, to a range of individual and collective actors with interests in the land in question. The second is polycentric governance: rules governing land use are derived in part from community-level action and in part from state intervention. We argue that in explaining the functioning of the HRS we need to move beyond the narrow conception of legally enforced private property rights on which North relied. We should instead embrace understandings of ownership as an emergent, diverse and complex institution, of the kind emphasized by A.M. Honoré's legal theory of ownership and Elinor Ostrom's theories of the common-pool resource and polycentric governance.

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Reconciling the Conflicting Narratives on Poverty in China

Cited by 5 publications

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Socio-economic determinants of suicide rates in transforming China: A spatial-temporal analysis from 1990 to 2015

Socio-economic determinants of suicide rates in transforming China: A spatial-temporal analysis from 1990 to 2015

Rural Poverty Reduction and Economic Transformation in China: A Decomposition Approach

Resolving Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system

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