Abstract:
The existing family poverty in our country results from the historical accumulation of many elements and out of deep and complex backgrounds, including individual, natural, sociocultural, and economic and political institutional elements. Family poverty as a social phenomenon manifests not only in mainstream distribution, namely, primary distribution and redistribution but in the third distribution, invisible distribution of inflation and alternative distribution. In primary distribution family poverty occurs because of the constraint of quality and quantity of productive factors under the effect of market and nonmarket mechanism. In redistribution family poverty results from inappropriate implementation of social security system, financial and tax policy and poverty relief policy. And in nonmainstream distribution family poverty comes out of invisible distribution involved in inflation and is hard to overcome owing to the weak third distribution with charity as the main form.
