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Case for an expenditure-based poverty line for the Newly indust / Wong, Chack-Kie; Wong, Hung

Jun 2004

Wong, Chack-Kie	Journal Article
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June 2004.

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East Asia ; Hong Kong ; Poverty Line ; Poverty Indicators

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ID: 069178

Ethical poverty line: a moral quantification of absolute poverty / Edward, Peter

Edward, Peter	Journal Article
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2006.

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Poverty ; Poverty Line

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ID: 184722

Local Policy Discretion in Social Welfare: Explaining Subnational Variations in China's De Facto Urban Poverty Line / Wang, Fei; Guo, Yu ; He, Alex Jingwei

He, Alex Jingwei	Journal Article
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How do subnational agents exercise policy discretion in the social welfare sphere? To what extent do they do so as a result of various bureaucratic and fiscal incentives? The literature has documented several explanatory frameworks in the context of China that predominantly focus on the realm of developmental policies. Owing to the salient characteristics of the social policy arena, local adaptation of centrally designed policies may operate on distinctive logics. This study synthesizes the recent scholarship on subnational social policymaking and explains the significant interregional disparities in China's de facto urban poverty line – the eligibility standard of the urban minimum livelihood guarantee scheme, or dibao. Five research hypotheses are formulated for empirical examination: fiscal power effect, population effect, fiscal dependency effect, province effect and neighbour effect. Quantitative analysis of provincial-level panel data largely endorses the hypotheses. The remarkable subnational variations in dibao standards are explained by a salient constellation of fiscal and political factors that are embedded within the country's complex intergovernmental relations and fiscal arrangements. Both a race-to-the-top and a race-to-the-bottom may be fostered by distinctive mechanisms. The unique role of provincial governments as intermediary agents within China's political apparatus is illuminated in the social policy arena.

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Poverty Line ; Central–Local Relations ; Dibao ; Race to the Bottom ; race to the top ; Provincial Government

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ID: 118270

Mixed news on poverty / Krishna, Anirudh

Krishna, Anirudh	Journal Article
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Publication	2013.
Summary/Abstract	To make progress toward moving a majority of the world's population into better circumstances, we must adopt a more nuanced view of what constitutes poverty.

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Poverty ; Population ; Poverty Line ; Future Poverty

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