This week our adventures in
learning introduced us to the poverty.
I decided to explore poverty in China. Through my reading I discovered
that China has made major gains in reducing
poverty in the current years. This
reduction to poverty can be attributed to the far-reaching development of economic
and social transition. Even though 4.2 million Chinese children live in absolute poverty
and 8.7 million live in disadvantaged conditions. Education levels are higher there than in many countries with
equivalent incomes. This struck me as odd because poverty does affect
children educational outcomes I was surprised to see that poverty had little
affect on children educational outcome there.
The majority
of poor families said they would not let poverty prevent their children from
attending school or entering higher education, and in my opinion that is why
poverty had very little or no affect on their educational outcome.
China has made major stride in reducing poverty by the following recommendations:
o
increasing parents’ ability to guarantee a better current standard
of living through enhanced retraining opportunities, and business development
support and increasing the minimum wage.
o
providing good quality education for all children. This requires
removing cost barriers to education, and would eliminate the need for extra
tuition.
o
ensuring that the health insurance system involves all elements of
the social security system, to meet the health-related needs of all
poverty-affected children.
improving migrant families’
access to government and community assistance by granting them equal access to
urban services as long-term urban residents; making it easier to apply for
urban registration would contribute to this.
