Off-farm employment and multidimensional poverty: empirical evidences from the Yellow River Basin in China

ABSTRACT: As an essential way to enhance farmers’ self-development ability, off-farm employment plays indispensable role in multidimensional poverty reduction many countries. Employing a survey of 1926 farmers five provinces the Yellow River Basin China, this paper examined multi-dimensional effect and heterogeneous influence different dimensions (modes, levels, distances frequency). The results showed that (1) although absolute income dimension was largely eliminated Basin, social resources, transportation facilities, security were key bottlenecks restricting self-development. (2) province with best for non-farm Shaanxi, largest contribution security. (3) Improving level, distance time can significantly alleviate farmers. Therefore, lessen it is necessary focus on governance poverty-stricken areas, such as middle upper courses River, adopting alleviation strategy according local conditions, working deficiencies mobility, security, deepening benefiting helping poor.