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Record W4412200362 · doi:10.1111/rode.70012

Does the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Program Reduce Income Inequality in China?

2025· article· en· W4412200362 on OpenAlexafffund
Pu Sun

Bibliographic record

VenueReview of Development Economics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIncome, Poverty, and Inequality
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
FundersChinese Government ScholarshipChina Scholarship CouncilUniversity of Ottawa
KeywordsPovertyEconomicsChinaInequalityEconomic inequalityDevelopment economicsEconomic growthPolitical science

Abstract

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ABSTRACT This study evaluates the impact of the targeted poverty alleviation (TPA) program in 2015 on urban–rural income inequality, defined by the ratio between the urban and rural net income. The main findings suggest that the program reduces the income ratio in poverty counties by 3.6% relative to non‐poverty counties, which implies a discernible convergence in income levels. I discuss that the significant increase in rural income per capita, improved rural employment, and more government spending contribute to the narrowing urban–rural income inequality. In conclusion, the TPA program displays a rural‐oriented character in implementation and succeeds in improving income distribution in underdeveloped regions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.022
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.327
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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