Zhulin is a town with a population of 10,000 inhabitants located in the mountainous region of Henan province. Starting in 1985, the town embarked on a programme to eliminate poverty through economic development and the improvement of the living environment. Since the early 1990s, Zhulin has embarked upon a process to bring about more sustainable forms of social, economic and environmental devel...

The theme of Part II of the e-discussion was “Sustaining development gains through inclusive development.” Part II was moderated jointly by Sarah Cook (UNRISD) and Donald Lee, International Committee for October 17 (UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty) with the assistance of Esuna Dugarova (UNRISD). There were 2000 views and 47 comment inputs from various experts, including from NGOs, academi...

Introduction Poverty eradication is one of the global challenges, and rural cooperatives provide an effective path to address smallholder households’ poverty. However, effect poverty reduction can show heterogeneity depending on economic capital, human social capital households. Methods Based comprehensive research data status 1,622 households in four provinces less developed regions western Ch...

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we apply these tools to the measuremen...

We examine the interrelationships between work-related disability, veteran, and poverty statuses using data from the 1992-2004 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. We find that households with non-disabled veterans present have a lower likelihood of poverty, but that advantage is severely eroded when the veteran or another family member has a work-limiting disability. Never...