Politics, policies and rural poverty alleviation outcomes: Evidence from Lankao County, China

Deng, Qingqing; Li, Erling; Yang, Yang

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102631

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“…First, elucidating the potential pathway of poverty reduction through entrepreneurship, this study may aid developing countries in expanding their entrepreneurship initiatives, particularly in underprivileged areas, and in enhancing policies that would encourage long-term sustainable economic growth. Second, Poor communities should take full advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities provided by government assistance, and poor entrepreneurs should frequently interact with institutions and the government to jointly create entrepreneurial opportunities (Deng et al, 2022), as evidence from this study suggests that poor entrepreneurs could effectively promote the transformation of entrepreneurial ideas into realistic, objective opportunities during their interactions with government agencies. Third, in their interactions with the government, poor entrepreneurs should focus on validating and enhancing their business ideas to strengthen their own opportunity beliefs, while avoiding any possible risks brought on by information asymmetry.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…To lift almost 100 million rural residents out of poverty, the Chinese government has implemented targeted poverty alleviation since 2013 (Deng et al, 2022). To ensure that assistance falls correctly into poor villages and households, the Central Government of China implemented a top-to-bottom accountability approach, putting in place a strict responsibility structure.…”

Section: Opportunity Co-creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through institutional support, the government improves the entrepreneurial environment, resulting in more sources and opportunities in poor communities. Poor entrepreneurs can frequently interact with the institutional environment through dialogue with government officials, research, and other practical activities, jointly discovering and creating entrepreneurial opportunities (Deng et al, 2022). With the improvements in the entrepreneurial situation, poor entrepreneurs can fully transform from "consumers" to "producers, " increase their income levels, and improve their quality of living, thus prompting sustainable growth in the local economy.…”

Section: Opportunity Co-creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Extreme poverty can be alleviated through entrepreneurship, but starting a business can be elusive among impoverished people, partly due to a lack of access to entrepreneurial opportunities. In the current literature, the source of entrepreneurial opportunity for the poor remains unclear. To address this knowledge gap, we used the opportunity co-creation perspective to examine the impact of opportunity co-creation on the entrepreneurial performance of the poor and its various influence pathways. We developed a chain multiple mediation model and surveyed 330 poor entrepreneurs from the Wuling Mountain Region, which used to be one of the 14 contiguous poverty-stricken areas in China until the end of 2020 when the country announced the eradication of extreme poverty. Data analysis was done using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results suggest that opportunity co-creation has a direct positive effect on the entrepreneurial performance of the poor and an indirect positive effect through the chain mediating effect of opportunity beliefs and entrepreneurial behavior. The findings confirm that opportunity co-creation is a critical factor for entrepreneurs in poor areas to overcome the lack of entrepreneurial opportunities and can also contribute to a better understanding of opportunity beliefs and entrepreneurial behavior. Furthermore, these results have important implications for poor entrepreneurs and provide opportunity co-creation solutions for poverty reduction through entrepreneurship.

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Section: Opportunity Co-creationmentioning

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“…The current evaluation of poverty alleviation policy mainly focuses on one dimension of their policy, and most studies only focus on the relationship between support policy and economic aggregates, that is, on the growth effect of policy or the quantitative effect of policy, while some scholars also study the industrial structure upgrading effect, fixed investment effect, employment effect, and sustainable development capacity effect of policy (Busso et al, 2013;Cristina and Guido, 2011;Giua, 2017). For example, Park evaluated the economic growth effect of large-scale poverty alleviation program on counties and found that the implementation of the policy significantly promoted the economic development of counties (Park et al, 2002); Some scholars have also evaluated the economic effect of the establishment of poverty eradication policies and used the PSM-DID model to study the effect of the implementation of poverty eradication policies on local economic development, and empirically found that the implementation of poverty eradication policies has a significant and sustained promotion effect on local economic development, and the longer the poverty eradication policies are implemented, the greater the promotion effect (Deng et al, 2022;Jiang et al, 2021;Yang et al, 2022).…”

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Does China’s poverty alleviation policy improve the quality of the ecological environment in poverty-stricken areas?

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Hua

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Poverty eradication and environmental protection as the two global goals of sustainable development. China’s poverty alleviation policy attempts to achieve green development in poverty-stricken areas by eliminating poverty while also promoting environmental protection. Since the Poverty-stricken counties on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau also have the dual attributes of ecological degradation and ecological fragility, it is of great significance to study the impact of poverty alleviation policy on their environment. In this research, taking poverty alleviation policy as the entry point, based on panel data and Remote Sensing Ecological Index for poverty-stricken counties on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 2011 to 2019, and using the difference-in-differences (DID) method to verify the impact of policy on environmental quality. The main findings of the study were: 1) The poverty alleviation policy has a significant improvement effect on the ecological environment quality of counties in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region, and this conclusion still holds in a series of robustness tests using methods including the changing sample size method and the variable replacement method. Moreover, the policy effect has a certain time lag and its effect persists in the long term; 2) It is mainly due to the increased level of government public expenditure and the easing of government financial pressure that has contributed to the improvement of environmental quality in poverty-stricken areas; 3) Policy heterogeneity suggests that industrial poverty eradication policies are more conducive to promoting synergistic economic and environmental development in poverty-stricken areas.

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“…These problems have further exacerbated rural poverty. Subsequently, governments worldwide have implemented policies and measures to promote rural development (Marsden, 2010;Deng et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

A rural revitalization model based on regional livelihood capital: A case study of Diqing, China

Zhu

Sun

et al. 2023

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Improving livelihood capital is beneficial for implementing China’s rural revitalization strategy (RRS); however, researchers have not focused on the regional attributes of livelihood capital. Thus, this study proposes a new concept of regional livelihood capital to guide RRS implementation. A comprehensive measurement method and official government statistics were used to analyze regional livelihood capital characteristics in Diqing. The results demonstrate that, from 1993 to 2020, Diqing’s regional livelihood capital index increased steadily from 0.058 to 0.356, and its structure continued to diversify; however, its level remains low. The natural capital index fluctuated between 2.044 and 2.284 and always had absolute advantages. The financial capital index increased rapidly from 0.024 to 1.396 and is the core driving force for the growth of regional livelihood capital. The physical capital index increased steadily from 0.056 to 0.456. The growth of the social and human capital index was slow and weak, with an average annual growth rate of only 4.42% and 1.07%, respectively, which represents a weakness in regional livelihood capital. Based on regional livelihood capital characteristics and Diqing’s economic circumstances, a targeted rural revitalization model was developed according to the dynamics of the organic system of regional livelihood capital, in which natural capital is considered the foundation, financial capital is the power, physical capital is the medium, and social capital and human capital are the ultimate goals. The main direction of energy is “natural capital → financial capital → physical, social, and human capital.” Simultaneously, reverse energy feedback should also be emphasized to promote the sustainable operation of this system. This study provides a new theoretical perspective of regional livelihood capital for the implementation of RRS and guidance for the practice of RRS in Diqing and other similar areas.

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Politics, policies and rural poverty alleviation outcomes: Evidence from Lankao County, China

Cited by 23 publications

References 59 publications

Does opportunity co-creation help the poor entrepreneurs? Evidence from China

Does opportunity co-creation help the poor entrepreneurs? Evidence from China

Does China’s poverty alleviation policy improve the quality of the ecological environment in poverty-stricken areas?

A rural revitalization model based on regional livelihood capital: A case study of Diqing, China

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