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Identifying a Sustained Pathway to Multidimensional Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Two Chinese Provinces

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  • Jing You
  • Andreas Kontoleon
  • Sangui Wang

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Poor rural households in developing countries often endure many-faceted burdens including monetary poverty, nutrition deficiency and energy shortage due to reliance on limited local natural resources with low utilisation efficiency. We investigate a sustained pathway in rural China to escape the vicious circle between three important dimensions of poverty – deficiency of income, malnutrition and a low energy consumption profile in terms of reliance on firewood. By exploiting household panel data and a dynamic and recursive multi-equation mixed mode, we identify inter-locking deprivations in income, nutrition and energy consumption. Firewood plantations only offer short-term solutions to break them through income effects, while the sustained pathways in the long-term are increasing agricultural labour productivity and provision of agricultural loans.

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  • Jing You & Andreas Kontoleon & Sangui Wang, 2019. "Identifying a Sustained Pathway to Multidimensional Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Two Chinese Provinces," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(1), pages 137-158, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:55:y:2019:i:1:p:137-158
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1371295
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