Randomized trial examines policy impacts on development in relocation areas, suggesting improvements in tool alignment.
Key Points
This research investigates how policy instruments influence community development in China's Poverty Alleviation Relocation program during urbanization.
Analyzed 38 provincial-level policy documents from 2021 to present using NVivo 20 software.
Employs a "tool–goal" analytical framework for content analysis.
Identified structural imbalances in policy tools including uneven deployment and underutilization.
Highlighted a preference for housing over productive resources, leading to industrial land underutilization, with only 14.83% support for industrial development.
Demonstrated that current policies favor physical and financial capital but hinder human and social capital accumulation.