The Impact Of Rural Minimum Living Security On Multidimensional Poverty Of Rural Households

After 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China,more than 700 million people possess been lifted out of poverty.Now China’s poverty alleviation campaign has entered the countdown period.The time is pressing and the task is heavy,especially in the deep poverty areas where there the basic conditions are weak,the causes of poverty are complex,the alleviation of poverty is difficult.The rural minimum living security(referred to as Dibao)was formally established in 2007.As the most important institutional arrangement in the social security system,rural Dibao has become an important tool for poverty alleviation.Based on the survey data of farmers in the key counties of poverty alleviation in Fujian Province,this paper uses Alkire-Foster(A-F)multi-dimensional poverty measurement methods to identify,measure and decompose the multi-dimensional poverty of farmers.Through the propensity score matching methods(PSM),this paper estimates the impact of the rural Dibao on the multidimensional poverty of farmers.Finally,this paper tests whether the rural Dibao will cause the problem of "welfare dependence" of the farmers.The results are as follows:First,this paper selects five poverty dimensions of farmers’ income,health,education,living standards,and housing to measure farmers’ multidimensional poverty.The results show that in addition to income poverty,farmers face more serious poverty in education,health,and other aspects.Taking 3 dimensions as the cutoff,the incidence of multidimensional poverty of each city is between 10%-15%;the difference of poverty incidence between the southwestern synergy development zone(SSDZ)and the northeastern synergy development zone(NSDZ)is not significant.After decomposing by region,the contribution of the overall multidimensional poverty of the SSDZ is slightly higher than the NSDZ.After decomposing by dimensions,the education dimension has the largest contribution of overall multidimensional poverty,followed by the income dimension and housing dimension.Second,Obtain rural Dibao cannot alleviate the multidimensional poverty of farmers significantly in general;the results of the group test show that the rural Dibao has a significant effect on the multidimensional poverty of the farmers in the SSDZ which has no significant effect of the farmers in the NSDZ.Third,the test results of the possible "welfare dependence" of the rural Dibao show that the rural Dibao has welfare dependence effect.Specifically,rural Dibao reduces the labor supply time of farmers in general;group test results show that rural Dibao significantly reduces the labor supply time of the SSDZ and the nonpolar groups,which have no significant impact on the NSDZ and the poor groups.The rural Dibao significantly increases the possibility of farmers not participating in production activities in general;group test results show that the rural Dibao significantly increases the probability of not participating in production activities in NSDZ and the non-poverty groups,but has no significant impact on the poor and the SSDZ groups.Based on the empirical research in this paper,this paper puts forward relevant policy suggestions on how to better play the role of rural Dibao in poverty reduction.