国内外新城市贫困问题研究述评

国外对新城市贫困问题的研究已经比较成熟。在贫困定义上，已从收入贫困扩展到能力贫困、权利贫困、底层阶级、社会排斥；在贫困成因上，形成了包括个人主义、贫困文化、结构主义和功能主义的多种理论解释。比较而言，国内新城市贫困问题的研究尚处于开端阶段，基本上局限于对城市贫困人口的构成、特征、形成原因和解困对策问题的探讨。国内新城市贫困问题的研究还存在缺陷，并表现出一些亟待解决的问题。

A Review of Researches on New Urban Poverty in China and Abroad

Research in foreign countries on new urban poverty is relatively mature. For the definition of poverty, it has been expanded from income poverty to capability poverty,entitlement poverty,underclass, and social exclusion. For the cause of poverty, there have appeared a variety of theoretical explanations, including the viewpoints of individualism, poverty culture, structuralism, and functionalism. Comparatively speaking, the new urban poverty research in China is still at its beginning stage. It is basically con-fined to the study of new urban poor population＇s composition, characteristics, causes of poverty and its solutions. Domestic research still has some defects and shows some questions urgently to be solved.