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Community Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program.
- Abstract:
- We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world's largest community-based development program—China's flagship poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory village planning. We use matching methods and a panel household and village data set with national coverage to compare changes from 2001 to 2004 in designated poor villages that began plan investments and in designated poor villages that had yet to begin plan investments. We find that the program significantly increased both government- and village-financed investments. While the program did not increase the income or consumption of poorer households, it did increase the income and consumption of richer households by 6.1 to 9.2%. We also find suggestive evidence that governance matters in the distribution of program benefits. Relative gains were greater for richer households in villages with more educated leaders, and higher quality village committees delivered greater benefits to both richer and poorer households.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.06.005
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- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Journal of Public Economics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 94
- Issue:
- 9-10
- Pages:
- 790 - 799
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
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0047-2727
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English
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- 2010
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- © 2010 Elsevier 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, 94, 9–10, (October 2010) DOI#10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.06.005
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