The Impact of China’s Priority Forest Programs on Rural Households Income Mobility

Can Liu, Sen Wang, Hao Liu and Wenqing Zhu

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Abstract: Over the past two decades, China has undertaken unprecedented forest programs in an effort to restore damaged ecosystems and increasing farmers’ income. Using survey results of 2,070 rural households in 15 counties of six provinces, we estimate the effects of China’s Priority Forest Programs (PFPs) on rural households’ income mobility. The effects of the area enrolled in the PFPs on rural households are mixed. It appears that larger area enrolled in the Industrial Timber Plantation Program and the Sloping Land Conversion Program pushed up rural households’ income mobility, whereas greater area enrolled in the Natural Forest Protection Program constrained their income mobility, and the size of enrollment in the Desertification Combating Program around Beijing and Tianjin and the Shelterbelt Development Program in the Three-North Regions and the Yangtze River Basin seem to have little effect on rural households’ income mobility.

Keywords: Priority Forest Programs; income mobility; rural development; forest economics; policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 D1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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