Ground-level bureaucrats as a source of intensification of rural poverty in China

Xiyi Huang
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Xiyi Huang: Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, UK, Postal: Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, UK

Journal of International Development, 1999, vol. 11, issue 4, 637-648

Abstract: This article explores the context in which the policies of Chinese reforms and poverty alleviation are implemented. Drawing on data from primary and secondary sources, I examine the impact both of local government's decisions and grass-root cadres' behaviours on the rural poor. The main ideas are: (1) decentralization shapes the likelihood that a deviation of policy implementation from policy goals takes place; (2) to result in a factual misimplementation, this process must be carried through by an incorporation with the particularistic ties; and (3) in this institutionally and culturally constructed context, grass-roots level bureaucrats have intensified rural poverty. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199906)11:4<637::AID-JID606>3.0.CO;2-C

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