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The Impacts of Unbalanced Development on Rural Multidimensional Poverty

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We will try to expand the poverty research topic from one dimension to multiple dimensions, from absolute poverty to relative poverty, with unbalanced development as the key word.

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    The models in this paper involve many indexes with values of 0–1, where 1 means deprived and 0 means not deprived. The changes between 0 and 1 are manifested in three aspects: First, the change of status of a particular individual, such as the change from the state of never being deprived to the state of being deprived, reflects the change of an individual's multidimensional poverty; second, the change in the proportion of deprivation of a group, that is, the change in the proportion of 1, reflects the change in the multidimensional poverty of a group; third, the change of some people in a group from 1 to 0 and others from 0 to 1, reflects the change of the deprived individuals in a group, which contains the dynamic process of getting rid of poverty and returning to poverty.

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Shen, Y. (2022). The Impacts of Unbalanced Development on Rural Multidimensional Poverty. In: Rural Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9655-8_9

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