Study On Multi-dimensional Poverty Measurement Of The Border And Mountainous Region Of Western Yunnan

The border and mountainous region of western Yunnan are concentrated and contiguous areas with special difficulties, having the most amount of border counties and indigenous ethnic groups in main battlefield of new-round poverty alleviation and development campaign. Carrying multidimensional assessment and monitoring on the current situation of poverty is an important part of poverty alleviation and development work. By assessing, to master all aspects of rural production and living conditions, to decompose and judge the urgency of needs in all aspects, not only provides a reference for the enacting of accurate anti-poverty policy of poverty alleviation, but also provide methods for monitoring and evaluating of anti-poverty outcomes.This study first combs the poverty measurement method from the selection of the dimension and Multidimensional Poverty Index this two main lines, summarizes the different measurement indexes and compares the pros and cons of each index laterally. Afterwards further applies Alkire-Foster approach to obtain data by sampling surveys, and carries multidimensional poverty measurement on housing, education, health care, electricity, transportation, potable water, fuel, sanitation facilities and information technology these nine dimensions in the border and mountainous region of western Yunnan. The results of102samples for multidimensional poverty measurement indicates that when K=1(means just considering an arbitrary dimension of any poverty situation), the poverty rate was77.5%, displaying that the vast majority of families are still at least in one dimension of poverty. As K value increases, namely to consider more dimensions, poverty incidence drops. When K takes1,2and3, Multidimensional Poverty Index is respectively0.147,0.105and0.048, all above are higher than the national level of2013measured by authoritative scholars. When K=4, the Multidimensional Poverty Index is0.009; but when K≥5, the index is0. Illustrating that with the dimension of consideration increasing, the poverty is obviously reduced in the border and mountainous region of western Yunnan, and almost the phenomenon of poverty exists no more than five dimensions at the same time. According to the dimensions to decompose the Multidimensional Poverty Index, find that there are still different dimensions of poverty in rural families of the region, of which sanitation facilities, health insurance and education contribute largest to the multidimensional poverty index. According to the region to decompose the Multidimensional Poverty Index, found that Dali, Nujiang and Xishuangbanna are the main areas contributes most to Multidimensional Poverty Index.Review the whole study, it is drawn the following basic conclusions. First, poverty measurement should be conducted from multidimensional directions, the current method measuring per capita net income of poverty lacks specific policies directivity. Secondly, poverty alleviation in the study area made some achievements; the next step is to lay main breakthrough at the improvements in residents’fuel, housing and sanitation, etc. Thirdly, of different dimensions and areas, the poverty situation in the border and mountainous region of western Yunnan varies, anti-poverty measures should be varied from person to person, and adjusted to local conditions, and poverty-reducing policies should appropriately and successively tilt to Dali, Nujiang, Xishuangbanna and other areas.Finally, to summarize the researching process and results, this article further put forward specific advice from the targeted object of poverty alleviation, the assessment of poverty situation measuring and the anti-poverty measures these three aspects, and proposed discussion and outlook of the problems in researching process.