Multidimensional poverty of persons with disabilities in China: An analysis of poverty reduction effect of employment services.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Disability is a global public health problem, and poverty due to illness and disability has always been a major problem and challenge for global poverty governance. In order to eradicate poverty, China has carried out a series of welfare reforms and employment interventions for people with disabilities. The purpose of this study is to examine the levels of multidimensional poverty of persons with disabilities aged 16-59 in China and the poverty reduction effect of employment services.

Methods

The Alkire-Foster (AF) method is applied to measure and decompose the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) of people with disabilities in this study. In order to make the results more robust, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and the combination of propensity score ma

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9950746 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature