| Since the reform and opening up in 1978,China’s poverty population has been reduced by 750 million people,and the first 896,000 poor villages have been successfully lifted out of poverty.However,some of the people who have been lifted out of poverty and marginalized groups have higher poverty vulnerability,and sudden risk shocks may interrupt their work and cut their income,which may lead to a return to poverty.In recent years,"Internet + poverty alleviation" has become an important guarantee in China’s poverty alleviation work.In this paper,we investigate the effect of Internet use on poverty alleviation,using 503 data collected in August 2021 in Jiangxi Province,one of the main grain-producing regions in China,and analyze the mediating paths of Internet use on relative poverty and alleviation mechanisms of farmers and social capital using a binary logistic model and a linear regression model,in order to provide ideas for achieving sustainable poverty alleviation for households who have escaped from poverty.A binary logistic model and a linear regression model were used.The main findings of the article are as follows:(1)Both mobile Internet access and computer Internet access can significantly alleviate the relative poverty of the farming households out of poverty,and the coefficients of their effects on the relative poverty index of the farming households out of poverty are-2.431 and-2.007,respectively,and both are significant at the 1% statistical level.(2)Confidence intervals for the direct and indirect effects were calculated using the parametric percentile residual bootstrap method and the bias-corrected parametric percentile residual bootstrap method.In the relationship between mobile Internet access and relative poverty,social capital explains 23.43% of the total variance variation in the relationship between computer Internet access and relative poverty,social capital explains 40.40% of the total variance variation.Based on the above findings,the following three policy recommendations are proposed to improve the sustainability of households out of poverty:(1)strengthen Internet penetration to achieve Internet poverty reduction in rural areas;(2)cultivate farmers’ social capital and improve their capital accumulation;and(3)improve public service provision in rural areas. |
