文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Spatiotemporal patterns in China's Minimal Living allowances: The urban-rural gap and regional differences revealed through a national poverty alleviation program

作者：Zhang, Zhonghao[1,2,3];Sun, Shimeng[1];Chen, Wanzhen[4,5];He, Xuesong[4]

机构：[1]Shanghai Normal Univ, Inst Urban Studies, Sch Geog & Environm Sci, Shanghai, Peoples R China;[2]Arizona State Univ, Sch Life Sci, Tempe, AZ USA;[3]Arizona State Univ, Sch Sustainabil, Tempe, AZ USA;[4]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Social & Publ Adm, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[5]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Inst Adv Study Social Sci, Shanghai, Peoples R China

年份：2023

卷号：54

期号：1

起止页码：214

外文期刊名：GROWTH AND CHANGE

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000821588300001)】；

基金：This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO.41730642), Chenguang Program of Shanghai Education Development Foundation and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No.17CG30 and No.17CG45), Shanghai Pujiang Program (No.2021PJC031), Major project on Humanities and Social Sciences of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Research and Innovation (2017-01-07-00-02-E00008). We are grateful to Prof. Wu Jianguo at Arizona State University who provided constructive comments for improving the quality of this paper.

语种：英文

摘要：The Minimal Living Standard Allowance System (MLSAS), established by the Chinese central government in the late 1990s, was intended to provide basic needs for urban and rural low-income populations. Although the subsidy standards of MLSAS have increased rapidly over the years, its distributions in time and space were found imbalanced. Using the per capita subsidy income (PCSI) data of 338 Chinese cities from 2008 to 2016, this study quantified the spatiotemporal patterns of the urban-rural gap and regional differences of MLSAS throughout China and identified the major influential socioeconomic factors of the observed patterns. The results showed that the PCSI of China's low-income populations increased rapidly but with large variations between urban and rural residents and between geographic regions. The PCSI in rural areas was much lower than that in urban areas, whereas the Gini coefficient of PCSI in urban areas was lower than that in rural areas, indicating the allowance from MLSAS was more unequal among rural residents. Additionally, the higher PCSI was concentrated mainly in three urban agglomerations in eastern China. Most cities in central and western China lagged in terms of PCSI. Correlation analysis between PCSI and socioeconomic factors indicated that the income and GDP per capita were the most important influencing factors. With a better understanding of the overall situation of the urban-rural gap and regional differences in implementing MLSAS, the current study should help improve the subsistence subsidy policies in China.