题目：Looking beyond income: An application of multidimensional poverty measurement to China

主讲人：Yin Zhang 博士 （邓迪大学）

时间：2017年3月29日下午14:30-16:00

地点：主楼216 

主讲人介绍：

    Yin Zhang graduated with a BA and an MA in Economics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1995 and 1999. She went to Unvisersity of Sydney where she gained her PhD in Economics in 2004. She worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland before becoming a Lecturer at Dundee in August 2006.

    External Affiliations：Member of Association for Chinese Economic Studies (Australia)

    Research：Yin's research interests are applied macroeconomics, economic development, Asian economies.

内容介绍：

    The current practice of poverty measurement is dominated by the use of money-metric income and expenditure measures, exemplified by the World Bank’s dollar-a-day poverty line and associated poverty indices. It has long been recognised, however, that poverty is a multifaceted social experience, deriving from not only a lack of command over resources but also inadequate intellectual and physical capabilities as well as having a time dimension. The application of multidimensional poverty measurement to developing economies is often hindered by data availability. This study makes use of China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), a longitudinal dataset providing information about the health, nutrition, education and income of a reasonably-sized sample of households drawn from nine Chinese provinces. China’s progress in poverty reduction is reassessed via the decomposition of the Watts index put forward in Chakravarty, Deutsch and Silber (2007). Three prominent dimensions of wellbeing – income, health and education – are incorporated into the measurement of poverty. The overall variation in poverty is then attributed to changes in inequality, poverty incidence, poverty depth, and the weights and correlations of the three dimensions. It is found that the major contributors to poverty reduction for this period are the reduction in poverty incidence and increases in the correlations of the dimensions. The results thus suggest a shift in the focus of poverty reduction policy from increasing the productivity of the poor to empowering the poor. 

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