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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty, Household poverty in China

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  No country for old men: an investment motive for downward inter-generational transfers in rural China

  AgEcon Search, 2016

  Tens of millions of older Chinese have been struggling with poverty and loneliness as their children  flee villages to cities.  Sharp demographic changes such as rapid aging and increasing dependency ratio due to the one-child policy,  as well as the recent trend of rural-to-urban migration as a result of urbanisation
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  Coresidence with elderly parents in contemporary China: the role of filial piety, reciprocity, socioeconomic resources, and parental needs

  Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2014

  Traditionally, family has played a central role in elder care in China. In addition, China’s constitution and a series of laws passed in the late 1990s stipulate that family members have the primary responsibility for taking care of their elderly parents, including arranging for suitable housing.
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  Migration and land rental as risk response in rural China

  AgEcon Search, 2011

  Households in developing countries take various actions to smooth income or consumption as a means of managing or responding to risk. This paper examines migration and land rental market participation as responses to risk in rural China.
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  Elder poverty in an ageing world: conditions of social vulnerability and low income for women in rich and middle‐income nations

  Luxembourg Income Study, 2008

  In most rich countries, poverty among younger pensioners (under age 70) is no longer a major policy problem, but women typically constitute two-thirds to three-quarters or more of the elderly poor in rich countries. Poverty in rich nations is especially a problem among women aged 75 and older who live alone.
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  Southeast Asia Human Development Report 2005

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  This report links the concepts of human development, regional economic integration and regional cooperation. It argues that the high level of disparity among countries within South East Asia can be attributed to variations in human resource development and differences in the quality of governance.
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  Strategic gender interventions and poverty reduction: principles and practice

  Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, 2004

  This manual has been developed to support the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction projects in Asia. It focuses on identifying strategic gender initiatives to help enhance women’s agency in the household and community.
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  Drought and farmers’ coping strategies in poverty-afflicted rural China

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  This paper explores the nature of drought risks in southern China through estimating the cost of drought and gaining some insight into farmers’ coping strategies.
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  How have the world’s poorest fared since the early 1980s?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004

  This report presents new estimates of the extent of the developing world’s progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard, they find that there were 1.1 billion poor in 2001: almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier.Over the same period, the number of poor declined by more than 400 million in China, though half of this decline was in the first few years of the 1980s.
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  Medical expenditure and rural impoverishment in China

  Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 2003

  Due to escalating medical costs and lack of insurance coverage, medical spending causes financial hardship for many rural families in China, despite continued economic growth and increasing income in the country as a whole. This paper, published in the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, reviews the escalation of medical costs and lack of insurance coverage.
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  Enhancing economic security in transition: pluralism in service delivery

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This paper argues that economic reform has led to fundamental challenges to the provision of social welfare in China.