Mechanism of Educational Targeted Poverty Alleviation in Western Developed Countries and Its Adaption for China
Abstract
Educational targeted poverty alleviation is beneficial to strengthening the endogenous motive force of poverty alleviation, preventing the return to poverty, and blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty, and consequently many countries have carried out some meaningful exploration. The United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and other developed countries have achieved certain improvements in the system construction of educational poverty alleviation, and their experience is worth learning. Based on the author's learning and practical experience, this work first summarized the current situation of educational targeted poverty alleviation in western developed countries. Second, it compared similarities and differences of educational targeted poverty alleviation among western developed countries. At last, it put forward the optimization direction of the targeted poverty alleviation mechanism in China's education, i.e., attaching importance to the legislative work on targeted poverty alleviation, establishing priority areas for education, and promoting cross-regional coordination mechanisms for poverty alleviation work.
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