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| A STUDY ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY IN THE MONGOLIAAUTONOMOUS REGION |
| SUN Lin1, WANG Yan-hui1, KE Wen-jun2, QIAN Le-yi1, WANG Qiang1 |
1. Capital Normal University, College of Resources and Environment and Tourism, Beijing 100048, China;
2. China Aerospase Science & Industry Corp, Beijing 100048, China |
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Abstract With the rapid development of China's economy, the official poverty alleviation work achieved great results. But there are still many areas of poverty alleviation that need improvement. The traditional method based on income level is easy and quick in helping the government indentifying the most of poor people.But those people who are living in a low living quality or suffering from diease or have no chance to get well education while their income are a little higher than the poverty level should be seemed as poor people too. To meet the needs of accurately identifying the poor farmers characteristics in new phase of poverty alleviation work, we should determine the characteristics of the poor from multiple angles with a new method in order to improve the quality of poverty alleviation. This paper measures the multidimensional poverty of 65 counties in Inner Mongolia with Alkire-Foster's "dual cutoff" method which has considered the actual situation of the study area and analyzes spatial distribution of the characteristics of poverty in the study area with Getis-ord local G. Considering a variety of classification methods currently used by government departments to differentiate poverty alleviation, this study compares the differences between those methods with Theil index. The main conclusions are shown as followed:1)There is a large area of high poverty counties unit in the west of the study area. Several counties with middle poverty level in the middle present east-west banded distribution. Poverty levels in the southeast of the study area is higher than that in the northeast. 2) The main poverty factors are average income, domestic health and years of education. 3)The differences among those counties in the east of the study area are much larger than that in the west of the study area. 4) Different types of poverty counties show significant difference in poverty indexes while different types of pastoral counties don't show this.
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Received: 27 November 2014
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2016, Vol. 31 
