Are the poor benefiting from China's land conservation program?
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Are the poor benefiting from China's land conservation program?
This paper studies the impact of the largest conservation set-aside program in the developing world: China’s Grain for Green program, on poverty alleviation in rural areas. Based on a large-scale survey, we find that the program was implemented mostly in the areas of China that are fairly poor. In addition, we show that income from livestock activities and some types of asset holdings of partic...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Environment and Development Economics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1355-770X,1469-4395
DOI: 10.1017/s1355770x07003713