A Look into Poverty

Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre (http://www.childhoodpoverty.org)


The country that I chose to look at was China. Three insights that I gained from the sight was:

1.  4.2 million Children live in absolute poverty and 8.7 million live in disadvantaged conditions. Both of these have declined since the 1900s.

2. "As the structure of the economy has changed, the social security system has had to adapt to protect people from different forms of poverty. Up to 1992, in urban areas, only people without work, with no savings and with no family to depend on were eligible for financial support.  A Minimum Living Standards  system has been developed since 1997 and by 2002 covered 23 per cent of poor urban households. Though this is the main form of social relief in urban China, there are concerns that the amounts allocated are too small to meet people's basic needs for food, clothing shelter, health and education and in particular, aren't enough to allow families to pay the compulsory education fee."

3. Between 4 and 8 per cent of the urban population, somewhere between 15 and 31 million people live in poverty