Publication Date
7-1-2007
Summary
In response to the growing rural-urban inequality, China is undertaking a series of policy initiatives to promote rural development. In addition to redistributive policies aiming at social protection, asset-based policy, which integrates social protection and social investment, is another viable option for progressive rural development. In 1998, the Hutubi local government in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China implemented an innovative retirement program which allows account holders to use accounts as legal collateral to borrow small loans and invest in productive assets such as farming supplies and equipment, education, and small businesses. Using the data gathered by the program and in-depth interviews with program participants, this case study closely examines the Hutubi Program. Strengths and limitations of the loan program are discussed, followed by a closer look at the program’s key features that have effectively encouraged asset building in a rural community. The success of the Hutubi Program has implications for asset-based policy development in rural China.
Document Type
Working Paper
Category
Financial Inclusion
Subarea
Global Asset Building
Original Citation
Guo, B., Huang, J., Zou, L., & Sherraden, M. (2007). 中国农村资产社会政策: 社会养老保险制度的变革 [Asset-based policy in rural China: An innovation in the Retirement Social Insurance Program] (Translation of CSD Working Paper No. 07-23). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development.
Project
China: Inclusive Asset-Based Policy
Keywords
Rural, IDA, individual development account, social insurance, retirement, GAP, policy
Recommended Citation
Guo, B., Huang, J., Zou, L., & Sherraden, M. (2007). 中国农村资产社会政策: 社会养老保险制度的变革 [Asset-based policy in rural China: An innovation in the Retirement Social Insurance Program] (Translation of CSD Working Paper No. 07-23). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7MG7P2G
Notes
The English version of this source was subsequently published in the China Journal of Social Work (https://doi.org/10.1080/17525090701855976). For the English version of this Working Paper, see https://doi.org/10.7936/K7F76C2D