Informality and rural industry: Rethinking the impacts of E-Commerce on rural development in China

Tang, Wei; Zhu, Jiaqian

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.02.010

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“…Some scholars focus on rural e‐commerce in China. For example, Tang and Zhu (2020) revealed that the rapid industrial development in the studied rural area in China was an outcome of the lowered capital barriers for entry enabled by the e‐commerce platform. Li et al.…”

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Endogenous inclusive development of e‐commerce in rural China: A case study

Gao

Liu

2020

Growth and Change

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Endogenous inclusive development of e‐commerce in rural China: A case study

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Liu

2020

Growth and Change

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“…A few studies even found a negative association between adopting ICTs and household welfare. For instance, in a study on “Taobao villages” in China, Tang and Zhu ( 2020 ) found that the diffusion of ICTs negatively affected local industry and household welfare. This may be attributed to the influx of large numbers of migrants into “Taobao villages”, which in turn leads to higher labor costs and distorted prices of products and production elements.…”

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Mobile Internet Use and Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from A Household Survey in Rural China

Yang

Wang

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Although reducing poverty has become an important issue for rural development in China, few studies have analyzed the role of mobile Internet use in multidimensional poverty. To fill this gap, this study investigated the impact of mobile Internet use on multidimensional poverty, using data collected from a household survey in rural China. Because households generally decide whether to use mobile Internet by themselves, an endogenous switching regression model was employed to control for potential selection bias. In total, 9.63% of the households were identified as multidimensionally poor and the adjusted multidimensional poverty incidence was 5.47%. The results also showed that mobile Internet use has a significant negative impact on multidimensional poverty. Further, we provide evidence of heterogeneity in the effect of mobile Internet use across regions. These findings highlight the importance of mobile Internet use in multidimensional poverty reduction strategies for rural households.

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“…A possible explanation may be that with the constant improvement of the trust of farmers in village cadres, the rural community gradually formed a kind of trust relations (Li et al, 2019), this can reduce the risk and uncertainty, and enhance the confidence of farmers through policy support and technical guidance from village cadres. The existing studies have confirmed that as agents of grass-roots political power (Tang and Zhu, 2020), the village governing organizations communicated and implemented national policies during e-commerce poverty alleviation (Tang and Zhu, 2020;Wang H. et al, 2020), and had posed influence on the e-business implementation practice.…”

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Influence of Interpersonal and Institutional Trust on the Participation Willingness of Farmers in E-Commerce Poverty Alleviation

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To explore the influence of interpersonal trust and institutional trust on the participation willingness of farmers in e-commerce poverty alleviation in China, a questionnaire survey of 320 farmers in Chongqing Ecological Tourism District was adopted for data collection, and a binary logistic model was used for data analysis. The results showed that (1) both interpersonal trust and institutional trust had a positive influence on the participation behavior of farmers in e-commerce poverty alleviation, and the priority ranking from high to low was: trust in government, trust in relatives, trust in neighbors, and trust in village cadres. (2) Institutional trust had a greater impact on the participation behavior of farmers than interpersonal trust, especially in the poverty-stricken areas where economic development was relatively backward. (3) Individual attributes, household attributes, and rural resource attributes had a significant positive impact on the participation intention of farmers. Among these, the role of rural e-business service platform was particularly important. The role of institutional trust at the village level still did not perform well in promoting the participation willingness of farmers. Based on empirical analysis, the suggestions for promoting the active cooperation of farmers and participating in the cooperation of e-business were put forward, such as enhancing the interpersonal network of farmers, improving the rural e-commerce information service platform, and strengthening the construction of the rural business environment.

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Informality and rural industry: Rethinking the impacts of E-Commerce on rural development in China

Cited by 128 publications

References 33 publications

Endogenous inclusive development of e‐commerce in rural China: A case study

Endogenous inclusive development of e‐commerce in rural China: A case study

Mobile Internet Use and Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from A Household Survey in Rural China

Influence of Interpersonal and Institutional Trust on the Participation Willingness of Farmers in E-Commerce Poverty Alleviation

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