摘要
This paper attempts to evaluate the targeting accuracy of anti-poverty programs in ruralChina by analyzing the county data and the unique household data collected from 592nationally designated poor counties. Two issues will be investigated: the targeting accuracyof poor county selection in the 2001 designation and the targeting accuracy of povertyalleviation funds allocated for poor counties and households within the counties. We havemodified the Targeting Count Gap and Targeting Count Error, where the results from themodified TCE indicate a fairly considerable improvement in targeting accuracy in the 2001designation. On the provincial level, we found that one-half of the provinces allocate fundsequally among counties no matter how high their income per capita. We did not find evidencethat poor households obtain more funds than other households.
This paper attempts to evaluate the targeting accuracy of anti-poverty programs in ruralChina by analyzing the county data and the unique household data collected from 592nationally designated poor counties. Two issues will be investigated: the targeting accuracyof poor county selection in the 2001 designation and the targeting accuracy of povertyalleviation funds allocated for poor counties and households within the counties. We havemodified the Targeting Count Gap and Targeting Count Error, where the results from themodified TCE indicate a fairly considerable improvement in targeting accuracy in the 2001designation. On the provincial level, we found that one-half of the provinces allocate fundsequally among counties no matter how high their income per capita. We did not find evidencethat poor households obtain more funds than other households.
