Targeted Assistance and Selective Policy Implementation: The Process and Effects of the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Program (2014-2020) in Rural China

• In Event: Welfare Provision in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

This paper shows that Targeted Poverty Alleviation Program has caused the gross economic growth in poor counties but no significant effect on public goods provision. Local elites’ networks in their early career has an impact on policy implementation.

Authors

• Xin Han, University of Pittsburgh

• Qing Chang, University of Pittsburgh