The Sloping Land Conversion Program in China: Effect on Rural Households' Livelihood Diversification

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By overcoming the barriers that limit access to financial liquidity and human resource, the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) can promote rural livelihood diversification. This paper examines this effect using a household survey data set spanning the 1999 implementation of the Sloping land conversion program. Our results show that SLCP works as a valid external policy intervention on rural livelihood diversification. In addition, the findings demonstrate that there exist heterogeneous effects of SLCP implementation on livelihood diversification across different rural income groups. The lower income group was more affected by the program in terms of income diversification.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFRO Working Paper ; No. 2014/07

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets ; Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment ; Environmental Economics: Government Policy
• Subject: Sloping Land Conversion Program ; China ; Livelihood diversification ; Income diversity index ; Identification condition ; Difference in differences

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Liu, Zhen
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)
• (where): Copenhagen
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/204375
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