Research On The Relationship Of Risk, Vulnerability And Poverty

Current research indicates that the poor always associate poor with insecurity, uncertainty and vulnerability. Based on this cognition, since 1990s in 20^th century, international society points the direction of poverty alleviation on create opportunity, endow power and strengthen security guarantee. It also take reducing vulnerability as one of the important content of poverty alleviation. In recent years, China's poverty alleviation policies focus on give corporeal and production capital to poor and pay little attention on impulsion of risk to poor. So "return to poor" is severely in China. From 1981 to 2005, the number of poor in China's country reduces from 200 million to 23.65 million. But since 2001, the reducing speed decreases. An important reason is "return to poor". So, it is very necessary to make a research to poor's vulnerability and the impact of risk impulsion.This paper takes poor's vulnerability and risk impulsion as research object and tries to answer the following questions: which risk will be met by poor in the agricultural production? And how do these risks affect welfare of poor? Which kind of assistance will be provided by vulnerability to understand poor?This paper use method combined theoretic research and experiential research to answer these questions. In theoretic research, it firstly uses concluding and summation to classify the risk to poor based on the sustainable living analyzing framework. There are three kinds of risk which poor face, the first is living capital risk, the second is living activity risk, the third is living result risk. In the second step, it takes living capital as the core and establish a analyzing framework of the relation of risk impulsion and poor. In experiential research, we mainly use factors analyzing method to make an experimental research of impact of all kinds risks to poor's income. The result indicates that living activity risk is a very popular impulsion to poor in daily production. When face to risk, the poor who is more frangible will have less ability to resist risk. After suffering impulsion of health risk and agricultural living risk, poor's income will reduce rapidly. But we also find that, poor can reduce the loss of risk impulsion through allocating living capital. When all risks impulsion occur at the same time, the negative impact will be enlarged and poor will be poorer.According to the conclusion of this paper, the writer suggests before begin poverty alleviation work, it is necessary to establish a early warning system and improve the risk forecasting ability of poor. Then when drawing poverty alleviation policies, it need to aim at the poor and take reducing poor's vulnerability as purpose. At last, we should perfect agricultural insurance system and protect poor's basic behalf.