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Guo Junping - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Study on Rural Poverty reduction effect of traffic infrastructure.
Asian Agricultural Research, 2014Co-Authors: Guo Junping, Zhang Bin, Zhang XiyanAbstract:To systematically comb and explore the Rural Poverty reduction effect of traffic infrastructure,the author analyzed the mechanism,main channels and actual effect of Rural traffic infrastructure on Poverty reduction.It revealed that Rural traffic infrastructure exerts positive or negative effect on Poverty reduction directly or indirectly.The positive channel includes increasing non-agricultural employment opportunities,reducing costs for agricultural production,transportation and labor transfer,increasing availability of social service,and promoting adjustment of agricultural industrial structure and development of Rural tourism resources.On the whole,traffic infrastructure has significant positive influence on Rural Poverty reduction.Finally,it summarized policy recommendations for building pro-poor traffic infrastructure,and came up with vacancy of related research field and future exploration direction.
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Research on Rural Poverty Reduction Effect of Traffic Infrastructure
Guizhou Agricultural Sciences, 2013Co-Authors: Guo JunpingAbstract:To systematically comb and explore the Rural Poverty reduction effect of traffic infrastructure,the author analyzed the mechanism,main channels and actual effectiveness of Rural traffic infrastructure on Poverty reduction,and revealed that Rural traffic infrastructure had positive or negative direct and indirect effects on Poverty reduction,and its positive channels including increasing off-farm employment opportunities,reducing costs in agricultural production,transportation and labor transfer, improving social service availability,as well as promoting agricultural structure readjustment and Rural tourism resources development;traffic infrastructure had a significant positive effect on Rural Poverty. Finally,the author refined and summarized some policy proposals for"pro-poor"traffic infrastructure construction,put forward the blank and future study direction in related research field.
Gurpinder Chima - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Rural Poverty Alleviation in India: An Assessment of Public Programs
Chinese Public Administration Review, 2016Co-Authors: B.s. Ghuman, Gurpinder ChimaAbstract:India adopted a centralized development strategy after independence. The development strategy focusing on high growth postulated that the benefits of such growth would percolate down and would mitigate problems of income inequality, unemployment and Poverty. Empirical evidence of the 1950s and 1960s, however, did not lend support to this ‘trickle down’ hypothesis. As a consequence social justice (i.e. equity) was added as another principal concern to the development strategy. In the 1970’s, ‘Garibi Hatao’ (i.e. removal of Poverty) was the buzzword among policy makers. With a view to solve the problems of unemployment and Poverty, both the central and the state governments initiated a series of programs. The growing significance of Poverty alleviation programs in planning evinced interest among scholars for Poverty studies. The objective of the paper is to make an assessment of public programs for alleviating Rural Poverty. The paper is organized into five sections. In Section I, data and methodology used in the study have been explained. Public programs for Rural Poverty alleviation programs have been described in Section II. Section III deals with the extent of Rural Poverty across the states. In Section IV assessment of public programs for Rural Poverty has been made. Section V includes conclusions and policy recommendations.
Christopher B. Barrett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Institutional Arrangements for Rural Poverty Reduction and Resource Conservation
World Development, 2005Co-Authors: Christopher B. Barrett, David R. Lee, John G. McpeakAbstract:This paper introduces a special issue featuring a set of papers on institutional arrangements for reconciling Rural Poverty reduction with renewable natural resources conservation in the low-income tropics. Collectively, these papers make four core points. First, synergies do not naturally emerge just because Rural Poverty reduction and renewable natural resources conservation are each appealing goals with common drivers and some intrinsic interlinkage. Second, it matters less which rules a community or country adopts than how well they monitor and enforce the rules they set. Third, flexibility and adaptability in design are critical to establishing cooperative partnerships that can advance both conservation and development goals. Fourth, multiscalar approaches are commonly desirable.
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Rural Poverty dynamics development policy implications
2003 Annual Meeting August 16-22 2003 Durban South Africa: Plenary Sessions, 2003Co-Authors: Christopher B. BarrettAbstract:This paper summarizes a few key findings from a rich and growing body of research on the nature of Rural Poverty and, especially, the development policy implications of relatively recent findings and ongoing work. Perhaps the most fundamental lesson of recent research on Rural Poverty is the need to distinguish transitory from chronic Poverty. The existence of widespread chronic Poverty also raises the possibility of Poverty traps. I discuss some of the empirical and theoretical challenges of identifying and explaining Poverty traps. In policy terms, the distinction between transitory and chronic Poverty implies a need to distinguish between “cargo net” and “safety net” interventions and a central role for effective targeting of interventions.
Lisa R. Pruitt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Missing the Mark: Welfare Reform and Rural Poverty
Social Science Research Network, 2007Co-Authors: Lisa R. PruittAbstract:This article considers welfare reform's impact in Rural America. Professor Pruitt asserts that federal welfare reform legislation, the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), reflects an urban political agenda that failed to consider Rural realities. Based on her analysis of two particular populations - those living in persistent Poverty and those in female-headed households - she concludes that PRWORA has exacerbated Rural Poverty. While PRWORA's focus was on work and time limits on assistance, it gave individual states latitude to design and implement programs tailored to their economic and demographic circumstances. Pruitt illustrates how some states with significant Rural populations used this latitude to institute programs that respond to the structural barriers endemic to Rural locales: greater transportation challenges in light of spatial isolation from jobs, services, and training opportunities; limited child care choices; and deficits in human capital. But she also points out how states' responses to these challenges have been piecemeal, and their ameliorative impact limited, in the absence of Rural economic development. Pruitt analyzes the contradiction between the decline in the number of Rural families receiving welfare (a rate commensurate with that of urban families in the PRWORA era), and the rise in Rural Poverty since 2002. Building on evidence that PRWORA has aggravated the hardships of the Rural poor, the article closes by theorizing our national failure to address Rural Poverty. Pruitt asserts that the failure is due in part to Rural myths and stereotypes, including the significance of the informal economy as a safety net for the Rural poor. She also discusses the difficulty in seeing the problem of Rural Poverty because of a tendency for urban residents to romanticize even hardship in the context of the Rural idyll they imagine. Pruitt argues that Rural myths must be revealed as such, and the limitations and downsides of Rural interpersonal familiarity and community must be fully understood, before law and policy makers will address Rural Poverty in a meaningful way.
Luo Qin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Research Progress of Foreign Rural Poverty Geography
Economic Geography, 2014Co-Authors: Luo QinAbstract:Rural Poverty geography is an important branch of Rural Poverty study, which has an important significance for enriching the theory of Rural Poverty and formulating the policy of Rural Poverty reduction. With the improvement of census data,the application of geographical information system and remote sensing technology, and the development of statistical analysis method, the research on Rural Poverty geography shows some new trends and characteristics. By reviewing the literature of foreign Rural Poverty in the past 20 years, this paper summarizes the concept and meaning and the existence of spatial Poverty trap, the effective mechanisms of geographical factors on Rural Poverty, the measurement of regional Poverty and the drawing of Poverty maps, regional targeting and effect evaluation from the perspective of geography. On the systemic review, it sums up some characteristics and development directions of foreign Rural Poverty,and brings forward the direction for the future research of Rural Poverty in China.
