@article{Hong:263148,
      recid = {263148},
      author = {Hong, Liu  and Tisdell, Clem and Fei, Wang},
      title = {Social Capital, Poverty and its Alleviation in a Chinese  Border Region: A Case Study in the Kirghiz Prefecture,  Xinjiang},
      address = {2017-08-27},
      number = {1745-2017-4402},
      pages = {39},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {Border poverty is a special type of poverty that urgently  needs to be reduced in order to construct a well-off  society in China by 2020. China’s current policies for  targeting poverty alleviation in its border areas pay  greatest attention to the availability of physical and  human capital and ignore the role which social capital  might play in poverty alleviation. Making use of survey  results obtained in July, 2016 from a sample of households  dominated by Kirghizs in the Kirghiz Prefecture of  Xinjiang, the attributes associated with being poor are  identified. Logistic regression is employed to determine  the probable effects of increased social capital on border  poverty. The results indicate that increasing social  capital at the household level could have a significant  positive effect on poverty alleviation, while increased  collective social capital probably does not. In addition,  it is found that the amounts of livestock and village  pasture land possessed by households and their use of  formal financial capital are positively associated with the  absence of poverty of households, whereas greater human  capital (education) and amounts of informal financial  capital do not display this association. Policy  implications of the analyis are outlined and assesed.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/263148},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.263148},
}