Introduction:
Founded in 1996, the Center for Poverty Research of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) is a non-entity research center affiliated to CASS. The Center’s purpose is to advance studies on China’s anti-poverty theories, experience and policies, help improve China’s poverty alleviation policies and enhance poverty governance and management, and facilitate the sharing of experience on poverty alleviation with other countries.
The Center’s scope of business covers poverty reduction-related theoretical and policy research, experimentation and innovation in poverty alleviation approaches, personnel training, and policy and project consultation and assessment. The Center adopts a director responsibility system led by the Council. The President of the Council of the Center is Prof. Li Peilin, former Vice President and academician of CASS, and the Director of the Center is Prof. Wu Guobao, a research fellow at the Rural Development Institute (RDI), CASS. The Center’s priorities in recent years include: conducting discipline development on poverty and wellbeing; conducting theoretical analysis of China’s poverty alleviation experience, and empirical study and assessment of China’s current poverty reduction practices; as well as strengthening cooperation and exchange with organizations and individuals engaged in poverty alleviation research and practice at home and abroad, with a view to boosting the Center’s domestic and international influence.
Expertise: China’s anti-poverty theories, experience and policies; poverty alleviation policy and project consultation and assessment, theoretical and policy research on poverty alleviation; experiment and innovation on new poverty alleviation measures; international sharing of poverty alleviation experience; world transformation of poverty reduction strategy and policy