Cost-Effectiveness Comparison on Different Assistance Approaches英文文献资料.docVIP

Technology and Investment, 2012, 3, 193-197 /10.4236/ti.2012.33027 Published Online August 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ti) Cost-Effectiveness Comparison on Different Assistance Approaches ——Base on the FAO Agricultural Rehabilitation and Restoration Program after Wenchuan Earthquake Hua Guo, Yuansheng Jiang * College of Economics and Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China Email: huaguohua@, * yjiang15@ Received July 2, 2012; revised August 2, 2012; accepted August 10, 2012 ABSTRACT The Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (UNFAO) adopted two assistance approaches which named the Direct Inputs Distribution (DID) and Agricultural Inputs Voucher (AIV) to assist the disaster affected farmers after the Wenchuan massive earthquake in Sichuan, China (Jiang, Guo, 2010) [1]. After carrying out 1) the beneficiaries’ field survey targeted on the earthquake affected households including both assistance recipients and non-recipients, and 2) the focus group interview of the administrative personnel in FAO Chengdu office, Department of Agriculture (DoA), Bureau of Agriculture (BoA), dealers participated in the program, the paper analyzed the total cost and effectiveness of those two approaches, by comparing the mean E:C ratios, which were 1.564 and 1.206 respectively. The results indi- cated that the AIV programs were more effective in assisting agriculture rehabilitation as compared to the DID pro- grams. Keywords: Assistance; Cost; Effectiveness 1. Introduction right answer or the right approach for the post-earthquake rehabilitation was still in question. In this paper, by using the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA), we would dis- cuss which approach was more effective. Right after the 5.12 Wenchuan massive earthquake, nu- merous of emergency assistances were delivered to the disaster areas in Sichuan, China. Those assistances were provided and implemented by varieties of non-government