This article articulates how two new urban poverty groups, namely the new urban poor and poor rural migrants, are pauperized under China’s social exclusion. We argue that the two poverty groups experience different pauperization processes and are subjected to distinctive social exclusions with relevance to their institutional-based status and changes in it. The urban poor experience status chan...

Consequences from the Redistribution of Urban Poverty During the 1990s:

in nigeria, most farming activities rely on family labor. however, rural-urban drift and the movement of young people away from agriculture are making labor increasingly pause. thus, labor has become a major constraint to expanding the scope of production by small-scale resource poor farmers. this paper provides an empirical relationship between labor and poverty using data from households. thr...

Food price increases and the introduction of radical social welfare and enterprise reforms during the 1990s generated significant changes in the lives of urban households in China. During this period urban poverty increased considerably. This paper uses household level data from 1986 to 2000 to examine what determines whether households fall below the poverty line over this period and investiga...

the present research has been done in response to one question: which approach can help reducing female poverty in region 18 tehran and thus achieving urban sustainable development index? moreover, basis on hypothesis: female job empowering project can effect on economic anti-poverty trend and therefore urban sustainable development. we referred and studied theories related to subject (such as:...

Previous investigations of geographic concentration of urban poverty indicate the contribution of a variety of factors, such as economic restructuring and class-based segregation, racial segregation, demographic structure, and public policy. However, the models used by most past research do not consider the possibility that poverty concentration may take different forms in different locations a...

Some of the data used in this analysis are derived from sensitive data files of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, obtained under special contractual arrangements designed to protect the anonymity of respondents. These data are not available from the author. Persons interested in obtaining PSID sensitive data files should contact Abstract The proportion of the population residing in high-pover...