Background:Anti-poverty has always been an important issue to be settled.What policies should be selected to help individuals escaping from the poverty trap:by directly offering transfer payments or indirectly providi...Background:Anti-poverty has always been an important issue to be settled.What policies should be selected to help individuals escaping from the poverty trap:by directly offering transfer payments or indirectly providing public services?This paper is among the first to explore the effects of public anti-poverty programs system in China.Methods:We Using unbalanced panel data of China Health and Nutrition Survey(CHNS)from 1989 to 2009,we demonstrate how the individual poverty status is determined through a four-staged simultaneous model.We choose the 3SLS(Three Staged Linear Squared)methodology to do the estimation.Results:GTPs(Government Transfer Payments)don’t have positive effects on poverty reductions.The results demonstrate that GTPs increasing by 10%makes private transfer payments decrease by 3.9%.Meanwhile,GTPs increasing by 10%makes the household income decreased by 27.1%.However,public services(such as medical insurance,health services,hygiene protection etc.)have significantly positive impacts on poverty reduction.Public services share a part of living cost of the poor,and are conducive for people to gain higher household income.Conclusions:GTPs given by governments are not effective in reducing the poverty,as a result of“crowd-out effect”and“inductive effect”.However,public services are suggested to be adopted by governments to help the poor out of the poverty trap.展开更多
基金funding from the National Natural Science Youth Foundation of China(Grant No.71503187&71503270)Academic development project of the young scholars of Humanities and Social Sciences.This paper is also part of research achievements funding from the Independent Scientific Research Project(Humanities and Social Sciences)of Wuhan University,and supported by“the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”.
文摘Background:Anti-poverty has always been an important issue to be settled.What policies should be selected to help individuals escaping from the poverty trap:by directly offering transfer payments or indirectly providing public services?This paper is among the first to explore the effects of public anti-poverty programs system in China.Methods:We Using unbalanced panel data of China Health and Nutrition Survey(CHNS)from 1989 to 2009,we demonstrate how the individual poverty status is determined through a four-staged simultaneous model.We choose the 3SLS(Three Staged Linear Squared)methodology to do the estimation.Results:GTPs(Government Transfer Payments)don’t have positive effects on poverty reductions.The results demonstrate that GTPs increasing by 10%makes private transfer payments decrease by 3.9%.Meanwhile,GTPs increasing by 10%makes the household income decreased by 27.1%.However,public services(such as medical insurance,health services,hygiene protection etc.)have significantly positive impacts on poverty reduction.Public services share a part of living cost of the poor,and are conducive for people to gain higher household income.Conclusions:GTPs given by governments are not effective in reducing the poverty,as a result of“crowd-out effect”and“inductive effect”.However,public services are suggested to be adopted by governments to help the poor out of the poverty trap.
