The Efficiency of the Rural Social Assistance Expenditure in China——Based on the analysis of Four-stage DEA and Malmquist Index Model

This paper analyzes the efficiency of the rural social assistance expenditure in China based on the classic DEA model, the four-stage DEA model and Malmquist index model,using Chinese provincial data from 2007-2008.The result shows:the public resources allocated in the rural social assistance are not used efficiently and the efficiency score are very different from each other in the past several years. At last the paper gives some brief policy suggestions.