State Penetration through Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from the “Targeted Poverty Alleviation” Campaign in Rural China

• In Event: Poverty Alleviation in China

Brief Overview

This article explores how poverty alleviation under authoritarian regimes can expand state penetration and generate regime-stabilizing effects, contributing to literatures on development and authoritarian resilience.

Author

• Yuanhang Zhu, university of Chicago