Mapping poverty in rural China: How much does the environment matter?

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dc.contributor.authorOlivia, Susan
dc.contributor.authorGibson, John
dc.contributor.authorRozelle, Scott
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Jikun
dc.contributor.authorDeng, Xiangzheng
dc.date.accessioned2008-12-12T01:29:13Z
dc.date.available2008-12-12T01:29:13Z
dc.date.issued2008-09
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we apply a recently developed small-area estimation technique to derive geographically detailed estimates of consumption-based poverty and inequality in rural Shaanxi, China. We also investigate whether using environmental variables derived mainly from satellite remote sensing improves upon traditional approaches that only use household survey and census data. According to our results, ignoring environmental variables in statistical analyses that predict small-area poverty rates leads to targeting errors. In other words, using environmental variables both helps more accurately identify poor areas (so they should be able to receive more transfers of poor area funds) and identify non-poor areas (which would allow policy makers to reduce poverty funds in these better off areas and redirect them to poor areas). Using area-based targeting may be an efficient way to reach the poor since many counties and townships in rural Shaanxi have low levels of inequality, even though, on average, there is more within-group than between-group inequality. Using information on locations that are, in fact, receiving poverty assistance, our analysis also produces evidence that official poverty policy in Shaanxi targets particular areas which in reality are no poorer than other areas that do not get targeted.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationOlivia, S., Gibson, J., Rozelle, S., Huang, J. & Deng, X. (2008). Mapping poverty in rural China: How much does the environment matter?. (Department of Economics Working Paper Series, Number 14/08). Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/1584
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDepartment of Economics Working Paper Series
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectenvironmenten_US
dc.subjectpovertyen_US
dc.subjectsmall area estimationen_US
dc.titleMapping poverty in rural China: How much does the environment matter?en_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
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