... 2020 19 04 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Agriculture Nutrition Food security China Policy Malnutrition Poverty Developing countries Multisectoral Health Agriculture historically has been used to feed...

... rates during the study period and actually rose over time. Household characteristics associated with poverty and the opportunity cost of staying in school were significantly and negatively correlated with the completion of nine years of schooling. Research limitations/implications The findings...

... of Northern China, where eliminating poverty by 2020 is now the top government priority. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses household survey data collected from six counties in a poor region in northern China in 2013 to measure the relationship between energy cost and family income. A fixed effect...

...Xiaoping Tan; Wanlong lin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test whether there is higher return rate of investment for poor farmers than for un-poor farmers and to discuss its implication for poverty reduction microcredit rate policy. Design/methodology/approach – By using...

...Dr Kevin Z. Chen, Dr Shenggen Fan and Dr Suresh Chandra Babu; Alan de Brauw; MH Suryanarayana Purpose – China and India are two of the fastest growing economies in the world, and poverty reduction has been substantial in both countries through the past few decades. Yet they have very different...

... vulnerable and sensitive to climate change. However, in the long term, all households in rural China appear able to deal with changing climatic conditions through adaptation. Second, the authors do not find evidences to prove the existence of a poverty nutrition trap in rural China. Third, the results also...

... also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate to what has been previously reported. Design/methodology/approach The Subjective Poverty Line (SPL) methodology is modified by asking one question on the amount of grains necessary...

... college enrollment in the rich coastal provinces and municipalities. Because the poverty rates are lower in coastal areas, this likely means that we would find fewer rural poor in the colleges in these areas. These limitations, while not making the current study any less interesting, do caution against...

...Xiuqing Wang; Juan Liu; Shujie Yao; Xian Xin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to yield more plausible rural poverty lines for China and then assess the determinants of rural poverty using these newly revised rural poverty lines. Design/methodology/approach In this paper it is argued...

...Dagula; Lily Kiminami Purpose The purposes of this paper are to examine the actual conditions of the problems of poverty in rural areas in Inner Mongolia, to clarify the problems involved in the measure to fight poverty through promotion of dairy farming and to propose policies for future measures...