The Empirical Analysis of China Rural Poverty Line

摘要

Determining a reasonable standard of poverty line is an important part of social security system, it is conducive for government to formulate economic policy on poverty alleviation. This paper introduced several famous methods which can be used to calculate poverty line and calculated the China rural poverty line in 2009 based on these methods. We find that China official poverty line is too low to adapt to the social living standard by comparing the poverty line counted in this article with China official level, hence come to conclusion that China government should improve the current poverty criterion and adjust its anti-poverty strategy.