Di Bao : A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China’s Cities?

Concerns about incentives and targeting naturally arise when cash transfers are used to fight poverty. The authors address these concerns in the context of China's Di Bao program, which uses means-tested transfers to try to assure that no registered urban resident has an income below a stipulat...

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Main Authors:	Chen, Shaohua, Ravallion, Martin, Wang, Youjuan
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE VALUE AGGREGATE POVERTY ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFERS CHRONICALLY POOR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC WELFARE ELIMINATING POVERTY EMPIRICAL WORK GDP GUARANTEED MINIMUM INCOME HEADCOUNT INDEX HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSING CONDITIONS IMPACTS ON POVERTY INCOME INCOME CONCEPTS INCOME ELASTICITY INCOMES INCREASING FUNCTION INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES LABOR FORCE LIVELIHOOD LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOG INCOME LONGITUDINAL DATA MEAN INCOME MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MILLION PEOPLE NEGATIVE EFFECT NET INCOME NET INCOME GAINS NEW POOR NORMAL DISTRIBUTION PARTICIPATION RATES PERFECT TARGETING POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY GAPS POVERTY IMPACTS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING PUBLIC SPENDING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REDUCING POVERTY RURAL AREAS SELECTION BIAS SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SQUARED POVERTY GAP SQUARED POVERTY GAP INDEX TARGET GROUP TARGETED TRANSFER PROGRAMS TARGETING URBAN AREAS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS WAGES WELFARE INDICATORS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6523063/di-bao-guaranteed-minimum-income-urban-china http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8831

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spelling	okr-10986-88312021-04-23T14:02:40Z Di Bao : A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China’s Cities? Chen, Shaohua Ravallion, Martin Wang, Youjuan ABSOLUTE VALUE AGGREGATE POVERTY ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFERS CHRONICALLY POOR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC WELFARE ELIMINATING POVERTY EMPIRICAL WORK GDP GUARANTEED MINIMUM INCOME HEADCOUNT INDEX HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSING CONDITIONS IMPACTS ON POVERTY INCOME INCOME CONCEPTS INCOME ELASTICITY INCOMES INCREASING FUNCTION INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES LABOR FORCE LIVELIHOOD LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOG INCOME LONGITUDINAL DATA MEAN INCOME MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MILLION PEOPLE NEGATIVE EFFECT NET INCOME NET INCOME GAINS NEW POOR NORMAL DISTRIBUTION PARTICIPATION RATES PERFECT TARGETING POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY GAPS POVERTY IMPACTS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING PUBLIC SPENDING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REDUCING POVERTY RURAL AREAS SELECTION BIAS SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SQUARED POVERTY GAP SQUARED POVERTY GAP INDEX TARGET GROUP TARGETED TRANSFER PROGRAMS TARGETING URBAN AREAS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS WAGES WELFARE INDICATORS Concerns about incentives and targeting naturally arise when cash transfers are used to fight poverty. The authors address these concerns in the context of China's Di Bao program, which uses means-tested transfers to try to assure that no registered urban resident has an income below a stipulated poverty line. There is little sign in the data of poverty traps due to high benefit withdrawal rates. Targeting performance is excellent by various measures. Di Bao appears to be better targeted than any other program in the developing world. However, all but one measure of targeting performance is found to be uninformative, or even deceptive, about impacts on poverty. The authors find that the majority of the poor are not receiving help, even with a generous allowance for measurement errors. While on paper, Di Bao would eliminate urban poverty, it falls well short of that ideal in practice. 2012-06-22T19:25:10Z 2012-06-22T19:25:10Z 2006-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6523063/di-bao-guaranteed-minimum-income-urban-china http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8831 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3805 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific China
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topic	ABSOLUTE VALUE AGGREGATE POVERTY ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFERS CHRONICALLY POOR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC WELFARE ELIMINATING POVERTY EMPIRICAL WORK GDP GUARANTEED MINIMUM INCOME HEADCOUNT INDEX HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSING CONDITIONS IMPACTS ON POVERTY INCOME INCOME CONCEPTS INCOME ELASTICITY INCOMES INCREASING FUNCTION INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES LABOR FORCE LIVELIHOOD LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOG INCOME LONGITUDINAL DATA MEAN INCOME MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MILLION PEOPLE NEGATIVE EFFECT NET INCOME NET INCOME GAINS NEW POOR NORMAL DISTRIBUTION PARTICIPATION RATES PERFECT TARGETING POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY GAPS POVERTY IMPACTS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING PUBLIC SPENDING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REDUCING POVERTY RURAL AREAS SELECTION BIAS SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SQUARED POVERTY GAP SQUARED POVERTY GAP INDEX TARGET GROUP TARGETED TRANSFER PROGRAMS TARGETING URBAN AREAS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS WAGES WELFARE INDICATORS
spellingShingle	ABSOLUTE VALUE AGGREGATE POVERTY ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS CASH TRANSFERS CHRONICALLY POOR CORRELATION COEFFICIENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION DATA SET DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC WELFARE ELIMINATING POVERTY EMPIRICAL WORK GDP GUARANTEED MINIMUM INCOME HEADCOUNT INDEX HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSING CONDITIONS IMPACTS ON POVERTY INCOME INCOME CONCEPTS INCOME ELASTICITY INCOMES INCREASING FUNCTION INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES LABOR FORCE LIVELIHOOD LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOG INCOME LONGITUDINAL DATA MEAN INCOME MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS MILLION PEOPLE NEGATIVE EFFECT NET INCOME NET INCOME GAINS NEW POOR NORMAL DISTRIBUTION PARTICIPATION RATES PERFECT TARGETING POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POSITIVE COEFFICIENT POSITIVE CORRELATION POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY GAPS POVERTY IMPACTS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY PROGRAMS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING PUBLIC SPENDING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REDUCING POVERTY RURAL AREAS SELECTION BIAS SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SQUARED POVERTY GAP SQUARED POVERTY GAP INDEX TARGET GROUP TARGETED TRANSFER PROGRAMS TARGETING URBAN AREAS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS WAGES WELFARE INDICATORS Chen, Shaohua Ravallion, Martin Wang, Youjuan Di Bao : A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China’s Cities?
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3805
description	Concerns about incentives and targeting naturally arise when cash transfers are used to fight poverty. The authors address these concerns in the context of China's Di Bao program, which uses means-tested transfers to try to assure that no registered urban resident has an income below a stipulated poverty line. There is little sign in the data of poverty traps due to high benefit withdrawal rates. Targeting performance is excellent by various measures. Di Bao appears to be better targeted than any other program in the developing world. However, all but one measure of targeting performance is found to be uninformative, or even deceptive, about impacts on poverty. The authors find that the majority of the poor are not receiving help, even with a generous allowance for measurement errors. While on paper, Di Bao would eliminate urban poverty, it falls well short of that ideal in practice.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Chen, Shaohua Ravallion, Martin Wang, Youjuan
author_facet	Chen, Shaohua Ravallion, Martin Wang, Youjuan
author_sort	Chen, Shaohua
title	Di Bao : A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China’s Cities?
title_short	Di Bao : A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China’s Cities?
title_full	Di Bao : A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China’s Cities?
title_fullStr	Di Bao : A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China’s Cities?
title_full_unstemmed	Di Bao : A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China’s Cities?
title_sort	di bao : a guaranteed minimum income in china’s cities?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6523063/di-bao-guaranteed-minimum-income-urban-china http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8831
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