CHINA: REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN POVERTY DISTRIBUTION

Regional Disparities , Targeting , and Poverty in India

'lhe Policy, Research, and Exterral Affairs Complex distributes PRE Working Papers to dissemninate the findings of work in progress and to encourage the exchange of ideas among Bank suaff and all others interested in development issues. These papers carry the names of the authors, reflect only their views, and should be used and cited accardingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions ...

Regional Poverty Targeting in China*

We evaluate the effectiveness of regional targeting in China’s large-scale poverty alleviation program begun in 1986 by analyzing a panel data set of all counties in China for the period 1981-95. Estimates of models of poor county designation and poverty fund allocation and newly defined targeting gap and targeting error measures show that political factors have affected targeting and that leak...

Sources of Productivity Disparities in Regional Grain Production in China

The study utilises survey data on 1000 households in rural China to investigate sources of disparities in factor productivities for rice, wheat and maize in different provinces. The effects of natural endowments are emphasised. It is found that for respective crops, the level of factor productivities is generally higher in their major producing areas than that in the non-major producing areas d...

Economic growth, regional disparities and energy demand in China

Using the panel data of 27 provinces between 1978 and 2008, we employed a instrumental regression technique to examine the relationship between economic growth, energy demand/production and the related policies in China. The empirical results show that forming a cross-province integrated energy market will in general reduce the response of equilibrium user costs of energy products to their loca...

Reducing Regional Disparities in China : Is Investment Allocation Policy Effective ?