Unconditional Cash Transfers in China : Who Benefits from the Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (Dibao) Program?

This paper analyzes China’s rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest minimum income cash transfer schemes in the world, and examines possible changes to the program design. Despite its size and central position in China’s current poverty reduction strategy, little...

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Main Authors: Golan, Jennifer, Sicular, Terry, Umapathi, Nithin
Published: Elsevier 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29226