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Conference Paper: Resource entitlements and urban poverty in China
Title | Resource entitlements and urban poverty in China |
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Authors | |
Keywords | China Urban Property |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | Association of American Geographers (AAG). The Conference program's website is located at http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/pastprograms |
Citation | The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New York, NY., 24-28 February 2012. How to Cite? |
Abstract | China's 'urban villages' are a unique phenomenon in contemporary urbanisation, providing low cost living for low wage rural-urban and urban-urban migrants who rent from a new landlord class of former peasants blessed by the proximity of their former farms to a rapidly expanding city. This serendipitous distribution of land entitlements sets up new and long lasting divisions in urban Chinese society. But the entitlement story of urban villages is not confined to land entitlements. It is the bundle of rights to land, labour, capital, urban services and more generally, the agglomeration benefits created by many people co-locating in a city, that determine well-being, and wealth and poverty experiences and trajectories. In this paper we report on a study of urban village dwellers drawn randomly from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in which we examine patterns of household entitlements and their relationship to poverty. We adapt Sen's (1981) entitlement approach to incorporate the concepts of vulnerability and urban subsistence resource starvation (following Sen's analysis of food starvation as entitlement failure). Using regression models of household poverty functions, we identify the sensitivity of urban poverty to various degrees of entitlement failure. We relate the empirical analysis to Sen and de Sotos' theories of property rights and to the idea of the right to the city. |
Description | Paper Session - China's Shifting Urban-Rural Interfaces: 1 |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209571 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Webster, CJ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wu, F | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, F | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sarkar, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Taylor, G | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-04T02:47:53Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-04T02:47:53Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New York, NY., 24-28 February 2012. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209571 | - |
dc.description | Paper Session - China's Shifting Urban-Rural Interfaces: 1 | - |
dc.description.abstract | China's 'urban villages' are a unique phenomenon in contemporary urbanisation, providing low cost living for low wage rural-urban and urban-urban migrants who rent from a new landlord class of former peasants blessed by the proximity of their former farms to a rapidly expanding city. This serendipitous distribution of land entitlements sets up new and long lasting divisions in urban Chinese society. But the entitlement story of urban villages is not confined to land entitlements. It is the bundle of rights to land, labour, capital, urban services and more generally, the agglomeration benefits created by many people co-locating in a city, that determine well-being, and wealth and poverty experiences and trajectories. In this paper we report on a study of urban village dwellers drawn randomly from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou in which we examine patterns of household entitlements and their relationship to poverty. We adapt Sen's (1981) entitlement approach to incorporate the concepts of vulnerability and urban subsistence resource starvation (following Sen's analysis of food starvation as entitlement failure). Using regression models of household poverty functions, we identify the sensitivity of urban poverty to various degrees of entitlement failure. We relate the empirical analysis to Sen and de Sotos' theories of property rights and to the idea of the right to the city. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Association of American Geographers (AAG). The Conference program's website is located at http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/pastprograms | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, AAG 2012 | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Urban | - |
dc.subject | Property | - |
dc.title | Resource entitlements and urban poverty in China | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Webster, CJ: cwebster@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Sarkar, C: csarkar@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Webster, CJ=rp01747 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Sarkar, C=rp01980 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 243045 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |