“Noon Sunshine-Young Scholars Seminar” is a regular academic exchange platform held by School of Finance. It aims to offer valuable occasions of communications among scholars in our college, between teachers and students, the domestic and the oversea. In this semester, we keep our original intention, set off for a new voyage. We will devote ourselves to fostering the academic atmosphere in the college, and promoting the academic level for both teachers and students.

The second session of “Noon Sunshine-Young Scholars Seminar” for the Spring Semester in 2025 is arranged as follows:

Lecture topic

The trade-off between equity and efficiency:

Evidence from China government-driven poverty alleviation

Keynote Speaker: Li Haoran

Date

Thursday, March 20th, 2025

Time

12:00-13:30

Lecture Venue

Room 116, School of Finance

Abstract

How to balance equity and efficiency in poverty alleviation is a worldwide problem. Based on the China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) policy, we examine the relationship between government-driven poverty alleviation and the sustainability of regional economic development. This result implies that anti-poverty policies may not increase the wealth accumulation of the poor enough to offset the loss of economic efficiency caused by redistributive interventions. This loss is represented by a decline in total GDP and population but has no significant effect on GDP per capita. We also find that when the regional poor population is concentrated and accounts for a large proportion of the regional total population, the efficiency of redistribution intervention policies is better. Moreover, fiscal support plays an important role in the sustainability of poverty elimination, and the availability of finance contributes to the economic efficiency of policies.