Understanding Poverty Alleviation in Rural China
The Role of Policy Brokers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6452103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mianguan Li (0000-0002-0914-0582, Center for Chinese Public Administration Research & School of Government Sun Yat‐sen University Guangzhou Guangdong China), Zaiping Yang (0009-0006-4527-9190, Center for Chinese Public Administration Research & School of Government Sun Yat‐sen University Guangzhou Guangdong China), Robert Walker (0000-0002-7763-3784, Jingshi Academy Beijing Normal University Beijing China) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 779-789 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Policy and Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-5596 • E-ISSN: 1467-9515 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/spol.13087 |
| OpenAlex | W4402957022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
China eradicated rural extreme poverty in 2020 after an 8‐year campaign that combined endogenous economic development involving local people with social assistance. Ethnographic research in a village in southwest China reports township officials, under‐resourced and pressed by higher tiers of government to meet the poverty‐eradication target, commissioning an entrepreneur as a policy‐broker. The latter established enterprises nominally to provide local employment, while seeking profitability from their investment. Prioritising poverty eradication over sustainability, government subsidies were employed to engineer income transfers lifting villagers out of poverty by the target date. Thereafter, transfers of income from the enterprises to impoverished people were at best irregular. The experience highlights the distorting effect of policy targets and the limits to endogenous development undertaken under time–pressure with villagers neither consulted nor benefiting from new employment
Business · China · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Poverty · Rural development · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |