Evaluating the effectiveness of the Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (Dibao) program in China
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- Kakwani, Nanak & Li, Shi & Wang, Xiaobing & Zhu, Mengbing, 2019. "Evaluating the effectiveness of the rural minimum living standard guarantee (Dibao) program in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 1-14.
- Nanak Kakwani & Shi Li & Xiaobing Wang & Mengbing Zhu, 2018. "Evaluating the effectiveness of the rural minimum living standard guarantee (Dibao) programme in China," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series 222018, GDI, The University of Manchester.
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Keywords
Dibao; policy effectiveness; poverty reduction; social rate of return.;All these keywords.
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- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2017-07-23 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-CNA-2017-07-23 (China)
- NEP-TRA-2017-07-23 (Transition Economics)
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