China Income and poverty in China and the findings of Jacob Shapiro and Qin Gao: A commentary July 19, 2019 0 Written by Peter M. Foggin. Image Credit: Just Behind My Building by Kyle Taylor/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Recently, China’s official English language newspaper, the…
China Welfare, Work, and Poverty: How Effective is Social Assistance in China? April 27, 2017 0 Written by Qin Gao. China currently has the world’s largest social assistance program, the 'Dibao,' or Minimum Livelihood Guarantee. My new book, Welfare, Work, and…
Culture and Society China’s New Urban Poverty April 17, 2015 1 Written by Dorothy J. Solinger. Beginning in the second half of the 1990s, poverty emerged in Chinese cities as a novelty under the rule of the…