Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural poverty and policy responses in China

doi:10.1016/S2095-3119(20)63426-8

	Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural poverty and policy responses in China
	Luo Ren-fu 1; Liu Cheng-fang 1; Gao Jing-jing 1; Wang Tian-yi 1; Zhi Hua-yong 1; Shi Peng-fei 2,3; Huang Ji-kun 1
刊名	JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE
	2020-12-01
卷号	19 期号:12 页码:2946-2964
关键词	COVID-19 pandemic perception poverty rural households China
ISSN号	2095-3119
DOI	10.1016/S2095-3119(20)63426-8
通讯作者	Huang Ji-kun(jkhuang.ccap@pku.edu.cn)
英文摘要	Given the sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a timely study on the impacts of and policy response to the pandemic on rural poverty in China is critically important because China has aimed to completely eradicate extreme poverty by the end of 2020. This paper uses data from the latest round of a nationally representative household panel survey to examine the impacts of the pandemic on rural poverty in China. Our data show that 11.9% of sample households were ever officially registered as poor households between 2013 and 2019, and this poverty incidence fell to 2.7% by the end of 2019. In the middle February of 2020, 23% of the households who have graduated from poverty since 2013 perceived that they would fall back into poverty due to the COVID-19. Among those never poor households, 7.1% perceived that they would possibly fall into poverty due to the pandemic. Results from both descriptive and multivariate analyses consistently show the interruptions that the pandemic caused in off-farm employment is an important channel that led households to perceive of falling back into or falling into poverty. We also find households in the bottom four quintiles when ranked in terms of household income per capita are much more likely to perceive themselves of falling back into or falling into poverty during this pandemic than those in the richest quintile. Meanwhile, our results show that the education and age of household heads, as well as being from Hubei Province matter in explaining household perception about falling back into or falling into poverty in some cases but not all. The paper concludes with a set of policy responses that China has taken to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on poverty alleviation.
资助项目	National Social Science Foundation of China[19ZDA002] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71742002] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71861147003] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71925009] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[71934003]
WOS关键词	GROWTH ; INCOME ; INEQUALITY
WOS研究方向	Agriculture
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000594501900010
资助机构	National Social Science Foundation of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/137005]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Huang Ji-kun
作者单位	1.Peking Univ, Sch Adv Agr Sci, China Ctr Agr Policy, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Luo Ren-fu,Liu Cheng-fang,Gao Jing-jing,et al. Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural poverty and policy responses in China[J]. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE,2020,19(12):2946-2964.
APA	Luo Ren-fu.,Liu Cheng-fang.,Gao Jing-jing.,Wang Tian-yi.,Zhi Hua-yong.,...&Huang Ji-kun.(2020).Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural poverty and policy responses in China.JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE,19(12),2946-2964.
MLA	Luo Ren-fu,et al."Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural poverty and policy responses in China".JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE AGRICULTURE 19.12(2020):2946-2964.