 Are there dynamic gains from a poor-area development program?Jyotsna Jalan and Martin Ravallion No 1695, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank Abstract: Poor-area development programs- in which the government transfers extra resources to unusually poor areas -have been widely used to fight poverty. There has been some research on such programs, but little is known about their impact on household living standards over time. The authors address the issue for a sizable poor-area development program in rural China. China's program had a significant impact on rural living standards in the targeted areas of the sample. The consumption-growth model suggests that households living in the targeted areas had a higher rate of consumption growth than one would have otherwise expected. Nonetheless the authors found that while the gains in growth were enough to prevent an absolute decline in average living standards, they were not enough to reverse the strong underlying divergent tendencies in the rural economy. Keywords: Poverty Reduction Strategies; Services&Transfers to Poor; Public Health Promotion; Environmental Economics&Policies; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Achieving Shared Growth; Environmental Economics&Policies; Inequality; Poverty Assessment; Economic Theory&Research (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:1695 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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