Abstract
Combating poverty is one of the most important issues worldwide. As the largest developing country, China has successfully begun poverty alleviation and made major achievements. However, research on multidimensional poverty and regional differences remains insufficient. Taking China Family Panel Studies data from 2016 to 2018, this study measures the vulnerability to multidimensional poverty indexes (VMPI) of families in rural China and its regional differences. The empirical results are as follows. (1) The headcount ratio of vulnerability to multidimensional poverty (VMP), the average vulnerability intensity, and the adjusted multidimensional vulnerability gap and quadratic gap have declined significantly. However, the rate of decline varies across regions. (2) The regional VMPI and the contribution rate of each region to the country’s VMPI are both ranked by western, central, eastern, and northeastern from high to low. Results indicate that the number of VMP families is much more than the income-poor people. (3) Many VMP families in rural China come from non-poor or out-of-poor families, and the majority of income-poor families are trapped in VMP status with the risk of staying poor in the future.
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The risk aversion coefficient \(\gamma\) is set as 0.6 in the probit and logit model. The reason is proposed in Sect. 4.2.
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Su, J., Tang, L., Xiao, P. et al. Multidimensional poverty vulnerability in rural China. Empir Econ 64, 897–930 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-022-02258-w
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