Industrial Poverty Alleviation Policy And Income Growth Of Poor Households:Theoretical Mechanism And Empirical Evidence

As an integral part of the path of poverty alleviation with China’s characteristics,industrial poverty alleviation has played an important role in driving economic growth in poor rural areas and steadily increasing the income of poor households.In the context of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization,formerly impoverished areas are facing urgent problems such as upgrading of characteristic industries,enriching and improving the mechanism of linking household with agriculture,and increasing the total household income and job opportunities of the formerly impoverished population.No matter from the perspective of summarizing China’s experience of poverty alleviation,or from the perspective of looking for policy suggestions for industrial development and improving the mechanism of stable income increase in formerly impoverished areas,the research on the effect evaluation and mechanism summary of industrial poverty alleviation policies needs to be enriched,which constitutes the starting point of this paper.Firstly,this paper constructs the theoretical framework of industrial poverty alleviation policies to improve the income of poor households based on the income channel effect and close ties effect.Secondly,using the data of the Chinese Poor Population Tracking Dataset of B county,A city,Shaanxi Province from 2014 to 2019,this paper empirically evaluates the effect of industrial poverty alleviation policies on the income of poor households during the period of targeted poverty alleviation by using fixed effect model,Heckman two-stage method and instrumental variable method,and tested the specific income increase mechanism.This paper finds that:(1)the industrial poverty alleviation policy has significantly increased the per capita net income of poor households by 13.92 percentage points,and this positive effect has passed the robustness test;(2)the heterogeneity analysis shows that the industrial poverty alleviation policy has a stronger effect on increasing the income of poor households with high income and high human capital level,which is easy to expand the income gap in poor areas;(3)mechanism analysis shows that the income increasing effect of industrial poverty alleviation policy mainly comes from the improvement of production and operation income and wage income of poor households.Among them,giving play to the leading role of new agricultural business entities,increasing the production and operation expenditure of poor households and encouraging poor households to work are important ways;(4)as an important means for the government to participate in poverty alleviation,grass-roots governance may affect the income increasing effect of industrial poverty alleviation policies by affecting the close ties between market subjects and poor households.This paper attempts to test this.Specifically,this paper examines the impact of the contact official system in grass-roots governance on the effect of industrial poverty alleviation policy,and finds that the contact official from town level units can improve the income increasing effect of the cooperative driven mode in the industrial poverty alleviation policy,while the person from village committee or neighborhood committee will weaken the income increasing effect of the cooperative driving mode and the “enterprise + cooperative” driving mode.On the basis of the above research,this paper proposes some policy suggestions: the guarantee of productive funds,the cultivation of production organizations,the improvement of the production capacity of formerly impoverished groups and the optimization and upgrading of organizational governance,combined with the task of promoting rural development in formerly impoverished areas.