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Effects of Public Transfers on Income Inequality and Poverty in Rural China / Hoken, Hisatoshi ; Sato, Hiroshi

Sato, Hiroshi	Journal Article
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This study examines the impacts of public transfers on income inequality and poverty reduction in rural China. It uses nationally representative rural household surveys from the China Household Income Project and classifies public transfers into three types – universal, pro-poor, and reimbursable transfers – to compare the impacts of each type of public transfer in 2013 and 2018. Estimated results show that the contributions of each type of public transfer to reducing income inequality were generally small in both 2013 and 2018. However, the effects of reimbursable transfers were the largest of the three types. We also found that the poverty-reducing effects were the largest for reimbursable transfers, and their impacts have considerably improved in the western region. The impacts of pro-poor transfers were intermediate but have developed notably in the central region. These findings suggest that reimbursable and pro-poor transfers contributed mainly to reducing rural poverty but the impacts were heterogeneous among regions.

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Poverty ; Social Insurance ; Rural Policy ; Income Inequality ; Public Transfer

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Socialist new villages in the Tibetan autonomous region: reshaping the rural landscape and controlling its inhabitants / Robin, Francoise

Robin, Francoise	Journal Article
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Publication	2009.
Summary/Abstract	The intention behind the establishment of the socialist new village in the Tibet Autonomous Region (2006-2010) is to relocate 50 to 80 percent of the rural in habitants, whose farming and pastoral practices are considered backward.There is little doubt that this vast social project, which has been little studied up to now, will have far-ranging repercussions on rural life in Tibet.

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Agriculture ; Tibet ; Autonomous ; Socialist New Villages ; Rural Policy

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