Abstract
The Overview summarizes the subjects, methods and achievements of researches on poverty and poverty reduction conducted by China's researchers in 2006 from the following six aspects: "Definition, Nature and Manifestation of Poverty", "Monitoring and Evaluation of Poverty", "The Causes and Reasoning of Poverty", "Strategy, Policy and their Impact Evaluation in Poverty Reduction", "Poverty Reduction Mechanism" and "Urban Poverty". In the aspect of "Definition, Nature and Manifestation of Poverty", the Overview analyzes the achievements made by China's scholars in reviewing the findings of international academia on poverty definition and nature, and sums up the outputs of their researches on manifestation and consequence of poverty in current China; In the aspect of "Monitoring and Evaluation of Poverty", the Overview highlights the results of studies launched by academia at home on constructing poverty measurements and the deficiencies of China's poverty measurement system; In the aspect of "The Causes and Reasoning of Poverty", the Overview outlines the perspective, content, method and achievement of researches made by China's scholars related with this aspect in 2006 from institutional and non-institutional dimensions; In the aspect of "Strategy, Policy and Impact Evaluation of Poverty Reduction", the Overview introduces the innovation made by China's scholars in theories related with poverty strategies and policies, and elaborates on the perspective, content and conclusion of their researches concerned with China's poverty reduction interventions; In the aspect of "Poverty Reduction Mechanisms", the Overview lays out the recommendations of China's scholars in improving poverty reduction mechanism and their comments on efficiency and impact of current poverty reduction mechanism in rural China; In the aspect of "Urban Poverty", the Overview outlines the findings of China's scholars in 2006 about the size, composition and determinant of urban poverty and social relief policies initiated in urban China, and makes comments on the deficiencies of current studies on China's urban poverty.
