Di Bao：A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China’s Cities？.docVIP

Di Bao：A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China’s Cities？ Di Bao: A Guaranteed Minimum Income in China s Cities? 1Shaohua Chen, Martin Ravallion Development Research Group, World Bank and Youjuan Wang National Bureau of Statistics, China Abstract: Concerns about incentives and targeting naturally arise when cash transfers are used to fight poverty. We address these concerns in the context of China s Di Bao program, which uses means-tested transfers to try to assure that no registered urban resident has an income below a stipulated poverty line. There is little sign in the data of poverty tr