Financial Knowledge and Behaviors of Chinese Migrant Workers: An International Perspective on a Financially Vulnerable Population

ABSTRACT

Making informed financial decisions is crucial to the wellbeing of Chinese migrant workers. Using interview survey data (N = 329), this study examined financial knowledge and behaviors of migrant workers in China. Results showed that participants demonstrated low levels of financial knowledge (51.4%) and beneficial financial behaviors (51.0%). Multivariate results indicated that a modest proportion of the variance in financial behaviors was explained by financial knowledge, attitudes, and socio-demographic characteristics (e.g., marital status and income). Findings underscore the importance of disseminating culturally-relevant educational interventions to financially at-risk, low-paid migrant workers in China.     

A global count of the extreme poor in 2012: data issues,methodology and initial results

The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity (PPP) conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the World Bank’s international poverty line. In revising the line, we have sought to minimize changes to the real purchasing power of the earlier $1.25 line (in 2005 PPPs), so as to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank’s twin goals – which were set with respect to that line. In particular, the new line was obtained by inflating the same fifteen national poverty lines – originally used by Ravallion et al. (World Bank Econ. Rev. 23(2): 163–184 2009) to construct the $1.25 line – to 2011 prices in local currency units, and then converting them to US dollars using 2011 PPP conversion factors. With a small approximation, this procedure yields a new international poverty line of $1.90 per person per day. In combination with other changes described in the paper, this revision leads to relatively small changes in global poverty incidence for 2011: from 14.5 % using the old method to 14.1 % using the new method. In 2012, the new reference year for the global count, we find 12.7 % of the world’s population, or 897 million people, are living in extreme poverty. There are changes in the regional composition of poverty, but they are also relatively small. This paper documents methodological decisions taken in the process of updating both the poverty line and the consumption and income distributions at the country level, including issues of inter-temporal and spatial price adjustments. It also describes various caveats and limitations of the approach taken.     

广州市农村留守儿童问题研究

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The classing gaze and its gendering effects: (dis)‐respectability,emotional (in)‐competency,and the counselling experiences of domestically violent Taiwanese men

Research on domestically violent men typically takes an oppositional logic of gender. While the significance of class in researching domestically violent men is identified, class and gender are often treated as separate entities that do not complicate each other. Drawing upon group observations and in‐depth interviews, this paper identifies how intersections of class and gender manifest in the counselling experiences of domestically violent Taiwanese men. From a Bourdieusian feminist analysis, the authors analyse (1) how class distinctions serve to (re)produce gendered hierarchy; (2) how contradictory experiences of gender reveal a relational understanding of class; and (3) how the gendered nature of domestically violent men is inscribed with a meaning of (working) class specificity for maintaining middle‐class ‘purity’. In analysing men's multiple and conflicting experiences, this paper contributes to research on domestically violent men by showing how class and gender are actively constructed and not produced in a monolithic/invariant way.     

西方经济学“三一复合教学模式”探索

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“钓鱼岛问题”引发的爱国主义新思考

钓鱼岛问题的实质是中日美的关系问题,是三国实力的又一次较量与试探。钓鱼岛问题的最终解决还是要依靠国家的综合实力和国际影响力。所以,新时期爱国主义应坚持强大国家的方向不动摇,温和、理性并以实际行动爱国,实现中华民族的伟大复兴和中国的崛起,用强大的实力来爱护祖国和人民,同时也为国际和平再添一份贡献。     

思想政治教育经济价值新探

思想政治教育经济价值,是指思想政治教育劳动所创造的能促进社会经济增长和发展,满足人们物质和精神需要的效应。思想政治教育在具有一般事物所拥有的性质和特点的同时,还具有其自身特有的属性及表现形态。思想政治教育经济价值具有依存性、间接性、多端性和两面性的基本特点。思想政治教育有助于及时更新经济发展理念,科学选择评价经济活动的标准,优化经济活动结构。     

黎族与南方百越后裔诸民族民俗比较研究

本文从水的崇拜、传统节日、文身和口头语言民俗等层面,对黎族与南方百越后裔诸民族民俗加以比较研究。     

探析微博在高职高专艺术类专业英语教学中的应用

本文探讨微博用于高职高专艺术类专业英语教学的教学模式,并辅以教学实例进行解析,为英语教学提供了新视角。     

大学英语四级短文听力的信息解码策略

文章通过对信息解码的理论和实践研究分析,深刻探讨解码策略,帮助解决学生在短文听力过程中存在的难以突破的障碍,从而提高学生英语听力理解能力的技巧。