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Regional Poverty Targeting in China.
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We evaluate the effectiveness of regional targeting in China’s large-scale poverty alleviation program begun in 1986 by analyzing a panel data set of all counties in China for the period 1981–1995. Estimates of models of poor county designation and poverty fund allocation and newly defined targeting gap and targeting error measures show that political factors have affected targeting and that leakage has increased while coverage has improved. Only one of the three main programs is progressive....
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 140.3KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00108-6
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Henry Luce Foundation
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Ford Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Journal of Public Economics Journal website
- Volume:
- 86
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 123 - 153
- Publication date:
- 2002-10-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0047-2727
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- Language:
- English
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- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:15134
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-16
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- Elsevier Science BV
- Copyright date:
- 2002
- Notes:
- © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Public Economics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Public Economics, 86, 1, (October 2002) DOI#10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00108-6
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