Targeted poverty alleviation and land policy innovation: Some practice and policy implications from China

Zhou, Yang; Guo, Yuanzhi; Liu, Yansui; Wu, Wenxiang; Li, Yurui

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.04.037

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“…Rural relocation benefits rural development acceleration and rural poverty alleviation (Zhou, Guo, Liu, Wu, & Li, ). However, it is usually difficult to carry out in practice because of the conflicts between the government decisions and the farmers’ interests.…”

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Spatial optimization of rural settlement relocation by incorporating inter‐village social connections under future policy scenarios

Liu

Kong

Zhou

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Social connections between villages can represent farmers'interests and thus benefit participatory rural relocation planning. With rural development, however, these connections will change and may weaken the adaptation of relocation plans to future rural systems. As yet, most studies still use empirical social connections to guide relocation planning, while a few have incorporated predicted connections in the context of rural development into relocation decisions. Meanwhile, spatial optimization approaches have seldom been adopted to solve this geographical decision issue. Accordingly, our study proposes a novel spatial relocation framework that incorporates changed inter-village social connections under future rural development scenarios. Empirical inter-village connections and their policy-induced changes in central China were explored using social network analysis. An integration of particle swarm optimization and geographic information systems was adopted to identify the relocation solutions with maximum inter-village connections and maximum spatial land use compactness, and to examine how connection changes under different policy scenarios influenced relocation outcomes. The results demonstrate the significance of incorporating policy-induced social connections into relocation plans, and most importantly, show the negative relations between changed social connections | 689 LIU et aL.

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Spatial optimization of rural settlement relocation by incorporating inter‐village social connections under future policy scenarios

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Kong

Zhou

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“…Poverty alleviation programs have received great attention worldwide [8,10,25]. To target the poor, the Chinese government has invested greatly in community based programs [1,48].…”

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“…Reducing poverty has been the major task of the government to improve social development [1][2][3], boost economic growth [4][5][6] and benefit individual welfare [7][8][9][10]. According to the World Bank [11], the population of people living in poverty decreased from 35% in 1990 to 11% in 2013.…”

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The Impact of Program Participation on Rural Household Income: Evidence from China’s Whole Village Poverty Alleviation Program

Lin

Zhang

2019

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Villagers' participation in poverty alleviation programs has received considerable attention, especially with regard to the poor. However, not much is known about the welfare effect of villagers' program participation. This paper analyzes the impact of villagers' program participation on their incomes. We used household data from 529 villagers in China's Whole Village Poverty Alleviation Program. We focused on two types of program participation-discussion and voting. Using the propensity score matching approach, we estimate the impact of rural households' program participation on their income. The results show that the education and the political career of the household head determine program participation. Households participating in discussion and voting have a positive and significant effect on household income. Richer households benefit more from the program. However, the poor receive less benefits. We conclude that broadening villager's participation can boost the effectiveness of China's poverty alleviation program.

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“…Owing to its socialist regime and urban-rural dual system, China's poverty alleviation policies have many unique features, such as equalitarian distribution of farmland and rural residential land, strict family planning, pro-peasant, countryside, and agriculture support, spatially targeting backward areas, and incipient welfare society building. Zhou et al (2018) summarized in detail of the stages and approaches of poverty alleviation in China since 1949 [37].…”

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“…However, it is also a way to expand the steady growth of domestic demand under the new normal of economic development. From the perspective of investment, the total direct investment in relocation will reach 560 billion yuan, which will provide many employment opportunities for the villagers [37]. From the perspective of consumption, relocation will have a huge positive effect on household building materials and household appliances, and the continuous driving of consumption cannot be underestimated.…”

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Evaluating Poverty Alleviation by Relocation under the Link Policy: A Case Study from Tongyu County, Jilin Province, China

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Land, nature, and the social environment in contiguous poor regions are harsh and difficult to change. The poor adaptive capacities of the socio-ecological systems of these regions are the main causes of deep, persistent poverty. In February 2016, the Chinese government issued a policy proposing to promote poverty alleviation by relocation (PAR) by means of the "Linking increases in urban construction land with decreases in rural construction land" policy (or simply, the "Link Policy" or LP), which intends to realize the sustainable social and economic development of local villages. Since then, many pilot projects have been carried out across the country based on local resources, environment, and economic development; however, few related studies on these cases have been conducted. After a review of poverty alleviation policies, this paper first introduces the unsustainable conditions of poor rural areas and the implications and advantages of PAR under the Link Policy; we then analyzed the complete PAR process, including formulation, implementation, and completion, by taking Tongyu County in Jilin Province as an example. The study found that the "whole village relocation" model practiced in Tongyu County was relatively successful in terms of improving the living environment, income, and public services of local villagers. On the other hand, there were three main problems: first, many follow-up industries were dominated by the village collectives and heavily dependent on government support or subsidies; second, the newly built village faced the dilemma of "re-hollowing" due to the out-migration of young people and the aging population; third, it was difficult to achieve a true requisition-compensation balance of farmland.

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Targeted poverty alleviation and land policy innovation: Some practice and policy implications from China

Cited by 263 publications

References 76 publications

Spatial optimization of rural settlement relocation by incorporating inter‐village social connections under future policy scenarios

Spatial optimization of rural settlement relocation by incorporating inter‐village social connections under future policy scenarios

The Impact of Program Participation on Rural Household Income: Evidence from China’s Whole Village Poverty Alleviation Program

Evaluating Poverty Alleviation by Relocation under the Link Policy: A Case Study from Tongyu County, Jilin Province, China

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