The Impact of Distance Between Poverty-stricken Villages and Government on Eliminating Poverty: Under the Background of Poverty Alleviation
ZHOU Linna1, ZHENG Hao2, DING Yugang2, LI Yuanqi3
1. School of Marxism, Peking University, Beijing 100071,China; 2. School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing 100071 China; 3. Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100071, China
Abstract This paper empirically analyzes the influence of distance between poverty-stricken villages and government on the probability and speed of eliminating poverty under the poverty alleviation by using binary choice model, ordered model and OLS regression. It is found that the distance between the poor villages and the government affects the poverty alleviation of the poor villages through the political performance effect and economic effect. Although both straight distance and traffic distance between poverty-stricken villages and county governments have significant influence on the probability and speed of eliminating poverty, the distance between poverty-stricken villages and county governments has no significant effect. The authors also find that the distance from the poor villages to the county government has a U-shaped influence on the probability and the speed of eliminating poverty.The potential reasons for the U-shaped influence are that the poverty-stricken villages farther away from the county government and those closer to the county government respectively receive more policy support and have more economic opportunities.
ZHOU Linna1,ZHENG Hao2,DING Yugang2 et al. The Impact of Distance Between Poverty-stricken Villages and Government on Eliminating Poverty: Under the Background of Poverty Alleviation. Economic Survey, 2021, 38(2): 033.
2021, Vol. 38 
