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Searching with a thematic focus on Livelihoods, Livelihoods social protection, Poverty, Social protection, Urban poverty in China

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    Providing greater old-age security in China

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2010
    China’s population is ageing fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. Migration of the young to urban areas is raising the proportion of the elderly in the rural population and the increase in the old-age dependency ratio will be even more pronounced in rural than in urban areas.
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    Extending social assistance in China: lessons from the Minimum Living Standard Scheme

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006
    This report details China's urban Minimum Living Standard Scheme (MLSS). This is a social assistance programme initially focused on the chronically poor, but later extended to the long-term unemployed.