农村劳动力转移对中国的经济发展和减贫做出了重要贡献。伴随着刘易斯转折点的到来,如何通过农村劳动力转移更好地实现减贫,面临着诸多挑战。本文利用多种来源的宏观和微观数据,对农村劳动力转移如何对经济发展和减贫做出贡献,以及现阶段通过农村劳动力转移进行减贫所面临的挑战,进行了细致的考察。研究指出,在农村劳动力转移已经相对充分的条件下,对于仍然存在的农村贫困人口,需要辅之以新的减贫方式,例如加强社会保护制度建设。本文还总结了中国的经验对其他发展中国家具有的重要启示。
Rural labor migration has contributed to China's economic development and poverty reduction significantly. With the coming of the Lewis turning point,China has been faced with many challenges on how to achieve poverty reduction through rural labor migration. This paper uses multiple sources of both macro and micro data to examine the contribution of China's rural labor migration to its economic development and poverty reduction and identify the challenges China has been confronted with on this aspect. It points out that,new measures such as strengthening social protection should be taken to reduce rural poverty at the current stage. The paper also puts forward implications of China's migration experience to other developing countries.