Impact of Information Access on Poverty Alleviation Effectiveness: Evidence From China

Abstract

In studying China's targeted poverty alleviation policy, this paper models the interaction between local governments and poor households with an evolutionary game. The model predicts that bolstering information access of rural residents can significantly improve the effectiveness of poverty alleviation. Using data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) for 2015, we test this prediction by employing Internet use, TV-viewing and radio-listening as proxy variables of information access. OLS and probit regressions show significant positive effects of targeted people's information access on various measures of poverty alleviation success. Estimations through propensity score matching (PSM) yield similar results. The findings highlight the importance of information access in global poverty alleviation efforts. INDEX TERMSInformation access, poverty alleviation effectiveness, targeted poverty alleviation, evolutionary game. ZHENYU ZHANG received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in transportation engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, China, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in management science and engineering with Tongji University, China. From 2013 to 2016, he was a Research Assistant with the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing, China. Since 2016, he has been an Engineer with the Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design Institute (Group) Company Ltd. His current research interests include fuzzy logic and information systems.

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