Does Resettlement Settled the Poverty? Poverty  Alleviation Resettlement Programme and  Multidimensional Poverty in Rural China

Xinyue Feng

doi:10.54254/2754-1169/9/20230348

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Feng,X. (2023). Does Resettlement Settled the Poverty? Poverty Alleviation Resettlement Programme and Multidimensional Poverty in Rural China. Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences,9,57-65.

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Does Resettlement Settled the Poverty? Poverty Alleviation Resettlement Programme and Multidimensional Poverty in Rural China

Xinyue Feng *^,1,

¹ The University of Manchester, Manchester

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

https://doi.org/10.54254/2754-1169/9/20230348

Abstract

Poverty Alleviation Resettlement is a key component of China’s ‘Five-Batch’ policy in Targeted Poverty Alleviation. This work introduces the history of the PAR programme in China and the current phase of work arrangement. It presents findings from the literature on internal and rural-urban migration in China and other countries as well as some of the experiences and problems faced by the previous poverty alleviation resettlement projects. In addition, it attempts to build a simple DiD model to determine the impact of participation in the PAR programmes on the multidimensional poverty status of the poor in China, taking subjective and objective factors into account. It finally illustrates some shortcomings of this research for future refinement.

Keywords

poverty alleviation resettlement, targeted poverty alleviation, multidimensional poverty, internal migration, rural China

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