The Study On The Measurement Of Chronic Poverty

In the economic development of the present world, poverty remains a grave problem which disturbs social development. Since America declaring war to poverty in 1960s', many countries and international organizations have advanced the world anti-poverty movement sparing no effort, and have got great success. However, researches home and abroad, all the time, pay little attention to the special group which are poor chronically. The truth proved that this group couldn't profit well form actual policy of aid-the-poor and economic development. So studying on this group and instructing the draft and application of pertinent policy is significant to improve the policy efficiency of aid-the-poor.The poverty measurement is of basic issue in poverty research. So for the research on chronic poverty it is necessary to study on its measurement, and it can't betray to the basic concept and idea of poverty. General theory and method of static poverty measurement is studied and analyzed. In the basic concept, the intension and extension of poverty is grasped from the evolvement of poverty conception and division of poverty type. In the measurement method, poverty identify standard and technique are studied, then the aggregation of poverty and its construction idea and evaluating system are analyzed. Along with those analysis ways and ideas, the chronic poverty identification and common measurement indexes are discussed, and point out that it is unsuitable to ignore some information of consume variety trace. Those questions are analyzed in the individual dynamic measurement index of poverty; the happening time and sequence of poverty are imported to chronic poverty measurement. More important, the measurement is completed by identification, conversion and aggregation three steps, and shifting their sequence forms a series of indexes which are analyzed and batted around. Then an analysis frame for chronic poverty measurement is provided. And at the end of this paper, the deploitation of chronic poverty measurement is discussed from measurement space and identification standard of chronic poverty and extension of poverty.