Are There Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas?

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dc.creatorMu, Ren
dc.creatorChen, Shaohua
dc.creatorRavallion, Martin
dc.date2012-03-30T07:33:13Z
dc.date2012-03-30T07:33:13Z
dc.date2009
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:10:38Z
dc.descriptionThe paper re-visits the site of a large, World Bank-financed, rural development program in China, 10 years after it began and four years after disbursements ended. The program emphasized community participation in multi-sectoral interventions (including farming, animal husbandry, infrastructure and social services). Data were collected on 2000 households in project and non-project areas, spanning 10 years. A double-difference estimator of the program's impact (on top of pre-existing governmental programs) reveals sizeable short-term income gains that were mostly saved. Only small and statistically insignificant gains to mean consumption emerged in the longer-term--though in rough accord with the average gain to permanent income. The use of community-based beneficiary selection greatly reduced the overall impact, given that the educated poor were under-covered. The main results are robust to corrections for various sources of selection bias, including village targeting and interference due to spillover effects generated by the response of local governments to the external aid.
dc.description1
dc.identifierJournal of Public Economics
dc.identifier00472727
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/5518
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/415843
dc.languageEN
dc.relationhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectMeasurement and Analysis of Poverty I320
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses
dc.subjectTransportation O180
dc.subjectSocialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics P250
dc.subjectSocialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics
dc.subjectHealth
dc.subjectEducation and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360
dc.subjectUrban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration
dc.subjectRegional Labor Markets
dc.subjectPopulation
dc.subjectNeighborhood Characteristics R230
dc.subjectRegional Development Policy R580
dc.titleAre There Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas?
dc.titleJournal of Public Economics
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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