Transforming Poverty Alleviation: From Helping Others to Self-Help Empowerment
The article discusses how to improve poverty alleviation by shifting focus from simply helping others to empowering poor households to help themselves. The researchers studied precision poverty alleviation in Hainan and found that current methods lack a strong self-help component. They suggest building platforms, ensuring policies, creating help systems, and fostering gratitude in poor households to transition from a "helping others" to a "self-help mutual assistance" approach.