Abstract This paper first reviews and summarizes the development course and characteristics of previous representative poverty index,points out that the calculation of unbalanced degree is the core problem of poverty consideration,and then based on the research of existing poverty intensity weigh method,through combining the two significant issues of poverty and income inequality,focuses on scientific and reasonable rural poverty intensity measurement,tries to put forward a new calculating idea and method,both from two aspects of structure and quantity effectively to make it the model quantification to construct a concrete index form,according to which measures actual rural intensity of our country in recent three years,analyses its change trends and characteristics empirically,which calculation results coincide with the POVCAL method and show that the income distribution of rural residents have already begun to present “bi-polarization” trend preliminarily,and puts forward reasonable policy suggestions accordingly.
LI Jin-Xie,FENG Zhen-Hua,GU Shi-Jie et al. Measurement and Analysis of Poverty Level in China’s Rural:Based on the Construction of a New Poverty Intensity Rate index from Gini Thought. Economic Survey, 2013, 1(6): 030.
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