title: Multidimensional poverty measure and analysis: a case study from Hechi City, China.
abstract: Aiming at the anti-poverty outline of China and the human-environment sustainable development, we propose a multidimensional poverty measure and analysis methodology for measuring the poverty-stricken counties and their contributing factors. We build a set of multidimensional poverty indicators with Chinese characteristics, integrating A-F double cutoffs, dimensional aggregation and decomposition approach, and GIS spatial analysis to evaluate the poor's multidimensional poverty characteristics under different geographic and socioeconomic conditions. The case study from 11 counties of Hechi City shows that, firstly, each county existed at least four respects of poverty, and overall the poverty level showed the spatial pattern of surrounding higher versus middle lower. Secondly, three main poverty contributing factors were unsafe housing, family health and adults' illiteracy, while the secondary factors include fuel type and children enrollment rate, etc., generally demonstrating strong autocorrelation; in terms of poverty degree, the western of the research area shows a significant aggregation effect, whereas the central and the eastern represent significant spatial heterogeneous distribution. Thirdly, under three kinds of socioeconomic classifications, the intra-classification diversities of H, A, and MPI are greater than their inter-classification ones, while each of the three indexes has a positive correlation with both the rocky desertification degree and topographic fragmentation degree, respectively. This study could help policymakers better understand the local poverty by identifying the poor, locating them and describing their characteristics, so as to take differentiated poverty alleviation measures according to specific conditions of each county.
authors.affiliation: 3D Information Collection and Application Key Lab of Education Ministry, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, No. 105 West Third Ring North Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China ; Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA USA.
authors.forename: Yanhui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: 3D Information Collection and Application Key Lab of Education Ministry, College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, No. 105 West Third Ring North Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Baixue
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: Diversity analysis; Geographical constraint; Hechi City; Multidimensional poverty measurement; Poverty identification indicators; Spatial pattern