A View From The Theory Of Asset Buildding Analyzing The Intergenerational Transmission Of Poverty

As Chinese economic strength has been continuously enhanced and all social undertakings promote the investment continuously, the job that help deficient up obtained apparent effect, especially the number of people which are still living below poverty line reduced signally in rural areas. The result of statistical calculation shows that the size of the poor population dropped to twelve million in china. Yet with the reform of state-owned enterprises and economic restructuring more deeply, laid-off workers is coming to a universal social phenomenon in the process of interest adjustment. With the enlargement of the poor scale, the gap which is between the poor and the rich is increasing, which causes many economy and social antimony, thus makes deep influence on the stability and development of the society.In recent years, intergenerational transmission of poverty has become more prominent. The conditions and factors of poverty are transferred to children by parents within family. Thus the future generations will repeat the poverty situation of the previous generation. Alleviating poverty and intergenerational transmission of poverty has become a strategic adjustment of our country's anti-poverty movement. For the poor, asset accumulation is not encouraged and allowed. So the aid policy based on the income can not reduce poverty fundamentally. In this situation, the theory of asset budding is proposed. In this theory, the income only sustain consumption, while the assets change the people's way of thinking and doing. The income is only a measure of poverty which neglect the long-term welfare of the family dynamic scale.On the basis of investigating domestic and foreign literature, this article has investigated the asset situation (including the current assets, the investment assets and the use assets) of poor families in Dongling District of Shenyang City. The article has analyzed the reason of poverty and the causes of intergenerational transmission of poverty. At the same time, absorbing the lessons of eradicating poverty of the countries in the world, the article has contacted the theory of asset budding with China's poor relief.Learning the lessons of resolving the intergenerational transmission of poverty (such as "American Dream" project, the United Kingdom Children's Trust Fund and Taipei Family Development Accounts policies, etc.), this article has proposed the recommendation of the problem of intergenerational transmission of poverty.