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Evaluating the effectiveness of the rural minimum living standard guarantee (Dibao) program in China
文献类型：期刊
通讯作者：Wang, XB (reprint author), Univ Manchester, Dept Econ, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England.
期刊名称：CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
年：2019
卷：53
页码：1-14
ISSN：1043-951X
关键词：Dibao; Policy effectiveness; Poverty reduction; Social rate of return; China
所属部门：经济学院
摘要：China's Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee program (Dibao) is the largest social safety net program in the world. Given the scale and the popularity of Rural Dibao, it is necessary to rigorously evaluate it so that policymakers know the extent to which the program meets its intended objective of reducing poverty. This paper develops some new methods and uses data from the 2013 Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP2013) to examine the targeting performance of the rural Dibao program. The pa ...More
China's Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee program (Dibao) is the largest social safety net program in the world. Given the scale and the popularity of Rural Dibao, it is necessary to rigorously evaluate it so that policymakers know the extent to which the program meets its intended objective of reducing poverty. This paper develops some new methods and uses data from the 2013 Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP2013) to examine the targeting performance of the rural Dibao program. The paper has found that the Rural Dibao program suffers from very low targeting accuracy, high exclusion error, and inclusion error, and yields a significant negative social rate of return. It discusses possible causes and argues that the fundamental mechanism has to be redesigned to increase the effectiveness of the program. The paper makes some recommendations to reform Dibao that will significantly improve targeting and reduce the cost of running the program. That will help China to achieve its goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2020. ...Hide

DOI：10.1016/j.chieco.2018.07.010
百度学术：Evaluating the effectiveness of the rural minimum living standard guarantee (Dibao) program in China
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