The Policy of Targeted Elimination of Poverty and Its Faulty Implementation: Findings from County A of Guangdong Province (精准扶贫中的政策执行偏差——基于广东省A 县的扶贫经验)

Abstract

A nationwide campaign for poverty-elimination has been underway for years. This article examines the task of “double implementation” 双到 of poverty-alleviation policies in County A, and discusses the obvious faults in the process and the complicated factors behind such faults, including the constraints of objective conditions, the mandatory requirements for poverty elimination as a political task, the malfunctioning of mechanisms for correcting mistakes, and local government’s redefinition of policy objectives, etc. All these factors work together to make the work of poverty-elimination deviate from its original objectives, as well as to make the mechanism of “inter-government complicity” function to legitimate such deviation.近年来，一场大规模的扶贫运动在全国轰轰烈烈的开展起来。本文以A县前两轮扶贫“双到”工作为例，指出扶贫政策在实践中存在着明显的执行偏差。通过考察扶贫政策的具体执行过程，发现扶贫政策执行偏差的生成机制复杂而多元，包括客观条件限制、硬性扶贫政治任务约束、纠偏机制失灵、地方政府的政策目标替代等。这些因素之间相互交叠、彼此嵌套，使得扶贫工作逐步偏离原初的政策目标，并通过“政府间的共谋”的机制得以“合法化”。