Table Of ContentBreaking Out of the
POVERTY TRAP
Case Studies from the Tibetan Plateau in
Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu
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Breaking Out of the
POVERTY TRAP
Case Studies from the Tibetan Plateau in
Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu
Editors
Luolin WANG • Ling ZHU
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
World Century
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World Century Publishing Corporation
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BREAKING OUT OF THE POVERTY TRAP
Case Studies from the Tibetan Plateau in Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu
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Members of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’
Research Team
Wang Luolin Adviser of the CASS; Professor
Zhu Ling Professorial Fellow, Institute of Economics
Yang Chunxue Professorial Fellow, Institute of Economics
Wei Zhong Professorial Fellow, Institute of Economics
Zhu Hengpeng Professorial Fellow, Institute of Economics
Zhou Ji Professorial Librarian, Institute of Economics
Zhaluo Associate Research Fellow, Institute of
Ethnology and Anthropology
Yao Yu Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Economics
Jin Chengwu Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Economics
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Contents
Members of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Research Team v
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
WANG Luolin and ZHU Ling
Chapter 2 The Rational Behavior of Tibetan
Farmers and Herders 11
YANG Chunxue
Chapter 3 How Do Farmers and Herdsmen
Participate in the Market? 35
ZHU Hengpeng
Chapter 4 Sustainable Development of the Tricholoma Matsutake
Industry in Tibetan-Inhabited
Regions of Yunnan, and Their Participation
in the Global Market: Discussions Based
on Value Chain Analysis 53
YAO Yu
Chapter 5 The Socioeconomic Impact of Cordyceps
Sinensis Resource Management in
Tibetan-Inhabited Regions of Qinghai 79
YAO Yu
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viii Contents
Chapter 6 Impoverishment Risks Caused
by the Ecological Resettlement Project 99
JIN Chengwu
Chapter 7 Preventing Intergenerational Poverty
Transmission with Antenatal Care 125
ZHU Ling
Chapter 8 Research on Compulsory Education in the Tibetan
Regions of Qinghai and Yunnan Provinces 143
WEI Zhong
Chapter 9 Effects of Radio and TV on the Cultural Lives
of Farmers and Herdsmen 165
ZHOU Ji
Chapter 10 Private and Social Aid in the Eastern
Tibetan Regions 181
WEI Zhong
Chapter 11 Snow Disasters and Relief Efforts: A Case Study
of Tibetan Pastoral Areas in Southern Qinghai 201
ZHALUO
Chapter 12 Systems and Technologies for Snow Disaster
Prevention: Anthropological Observations
on the Pastoral Areas in the
Eastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau 229
ZHALUO
Acknowledgements 263
Index 265
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Preface
This book is divided into 12 chapters. Except for the introductory chap-
ter, the rest of the chapters are all reports based on the each of the sub-
topics. The following section provides an overview of the book beginning
from the second chapter.
Against the background of economic marketization and globalization,
one of the main ways that poor farmers and herdsmen can break through
the poverty trap is to enhance their competence in production manage-
ment and increase their incomes through market trading. However, these
rural families usually live in geographical locations far from cities and
towns and with poor infrastructure. Additionally, the markets for agricul-
tural products are relatively unstable and risky. Indeed, it is impossible for
this group to remove the barriers preventing them from entering the
market, by only relying on “the market”. Instead, it requires the govern-
ment to invest in public infrastructure and assist with effective policies
that help to build market institutions. In our previous research, our
research team has done special studies on government investment in rural
roads, drinking water and the agricultural infrastructure in Tibetan
regions. In this stage of the research, taking a “micro” perspective, we
focus on how farmers and herdsmen enter the market and increase their
incomes by adapting to a marketized socioeconomic environment while
optimizing their resource allocation. The second chapter of the book
takes a theoretical approach, exploring the prerequisites required in order
to change the old ways of thinking prevalent in the farmer and herdsmen
populations, while questioning the claim that these people have rather
“backward ideas and ways of thinking”. The third chapter examines the
market structure of regions where we did research and the participation
of farmers and herdsmen in the market.
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