Growth and Common Prosperity in China

Kakwani, Nanak; Wang, Xiaobing; Ning, Xue; Zhan, Peng

doi:10.1111/cwe.12401

Cited by 62 publications

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“…In tackling both domestic and international challenges (Lin & Wang, 2022) and for China to become a fairer society (Kakwani et al, 2022), the geographic barrier has to be recognized and removed, as has happened in rural and urban hukou in many inland regions. China should follow international practice by giving people the right to settle after a certain period of work or residence.…”

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China's efficient urban bias

Rangazas

Wang

Zou

2022

Pacific Economic Review

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This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous rural–urban migration to analyse the provision of rural and urban government services in China, with special emphasis on the role of the household registration (hukou) system in shaping its urbanization process. It argues that China's urban bias policy, which is enabled by the hukou system restricting rural–urban migration, did not necessarily reduce economic efficiency. Rather, it might have only raised urban welfare at the expense of rural residents. As the hukou system also ties people to particular geographical locations, this paper argues that China's continuous bias towards coastal and big cities has started to cause economic inefficiency as well as inequality. It suggests that progressive hukou reform reducing barriers to cross‐region migration would improve economic efficiency and welfare.

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China's efficient urban bias

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2022

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“…For poor countries, especially in countries where the state capacity is relatively weak, the community-based democratic practice that allows people to evaluate and decide the allocation of welfare fund may be the best way to overcome information asymmetries, to effectively help combating poverty, and achieve common prosperity (Kakwani et al 2022).…”

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When Poverty Reduction Meets Democracy: An Investigation into the Use of Different Evaluation Methods for Assessing the Effectiveness of a Social Program

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Shen

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Asian Economic Papers

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This paper evaluates the minimum living standard guarantee program (Dibao) in rural China using several methods including the income approach, the multidimensional poverty approach, and a proxy means test approach. We find that the targeting accuracy of the program appears greater the more comprehensive the evaluation method used—but all these methods find low levels of targeting accuracy. Because Dibao fund allocation is largely decided by the villagers, who take a more holistic view in selecting “poor” households than the various evaluation methods, we argue that the low targeting effective may be due to the lack of comprehensive evaluation method, as opposed to the low targeting of the program itself. This paper argues that the community-based targeting used by the Dibao program may be a better way to combat poverty in many developing countries, as it requires less administrative capacity and overcomes the difficulties of identifying poor households that qualify for assistance.

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“…With the realization of the goal of building a moderately prosperous society, China's social and economic development has entered a new era, and common prosperity has become an important goal for the country in the new development stage [ 1 ]. To narrow the income gap, the Chinese government has made a series of top-level designs.…”

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