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| Title: | | Drivers of poverty reduction in lagging regions: Evidence from rural Western China  |
| Authors: | | Christiaensen, Luc Pan, Lei Wang, Sangui |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // World Institute for Development Economics Research 2010,35 |
| Abstract: | | Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much promise. Labour mobility has also been important in Gansu. So far, rural diversification has not proven to contribute much to poverty reduction. Income transfers and agricultural tax abolishment have helped at the margin. Overall, the findings highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries where non-agriculture drives overall growth. |
| Subjects: | | agriculture migration rural nonfarm employment lagging region poverty |
| JEL: | | I32 J61 O12 O13 R23 |
| ISBN: | | 978-92-9230-272-6 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Working Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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