Assessment of the effects of targeted poverty alleviation policy on differently poverty‐stricken households: A multi‐propensity score weighting model

Abstract

Eliminating poverty is a multifaceted global challenge and a focal point of global development governance.With the implementation of targeted poverty alleviation (TPA), China's poverty alleviation efforts have had significant achievements. This study provides a new perspective by classifying poverty-stricken households based on poverty root causes at the household level, a multi-propensity score weighting model based on counterfactual inference is employed to examine the poverty reduction effect and policy precision on six nonequivalent poverty-stricken household groups in a Chinese county. The results reveal that the poverty reduction effects differed among poverty-stricken households with different root causes of poverty. Specifically, households impoverished due to disability have the lowest income of the six groups. The assistance policy effects also vary significantly and are found to be poorly suited to poverty-stricken households a lack of labor force and funds. A robustness test confirms this conclusion and a more nuanced analysis reveals that these differences are reflected in the wage and transfer incomes. Therefore, to ensure the stability of poverty reduction and the sustainability of income for poverty-stricken households, relevant associated aid

Flush toilet use and its impact on health and non‐health expenditures

“…China is an appealing case to explore the impact of flush toilet use on health and non‐health expenditures of rural households. With the implementation of the ‘Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA)’ program in 2014, China successfully eliminated extreme poverty in 2020 (Chang et al, 2022; Tang et al, 2021; Yan et al, 2023). However, rural residents' financial burden in China is increasingly elevated by the escalating health expenditure, becoming a nonnegligible driver of rural poverty (Chen & Pan, 2019).…”