TY - GEN
AU - Chen, Shaohua
AU - Ravallion, Martin
AU - Mu, Ren
AU - Chen, Shaohua
TI - Are There Lasting Impacts of Aid To Poor Areas ? Evidence From Rural China
PB - The World Bank
KW - Aid Effectiveness
KW - Anti-Poverty
KW - Communities & Human Settlements
KW - Community Participation
KW - Counterfactual
KW - Debt Markets
KW - Economic Growth
KW - Economic Theory and Research
KW - Extreme Poverty
KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development
KW - Financial Literacy
KW - Household Survey
KW - Housing and Human Habitats
KW - Income
KW - Income Gains
KW - Inequality
KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
KW - Market Failures
KW - Poor
KW - Poverty Monitoring and Analysis
KW - Poverty Reduction
KW - Rural Development
KW - Rural Poverty Reduction
KW - Services and Transfers to Poor
PY - 2006
N2 - The paper revisits 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 2,000 households in project and nonproject 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 modest gains to mean consumption emerged in the longer term-in rough accord with the gain to permanent income. Certain types of households gained more than others. The educated poor were under-covered by the community-based selection process-greatly reducing overall impact. 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
CY - Washington, D.C
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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