The impact of digital village construction on poverty vulnerability among rural households

Abstract

Abstract Against the backdrop of consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation and promoting rural revitalization, whether digital village construction can alleviate the risk of rural families returning to poverty and then help long-term poverty prevention needs systematic and scientific empirical investigation. Using data from the 2020 China Rural Revitalization Survey (CRRS), this paper analyzes the impact of digital village construction on rural household poverty vulnerability and explores its potential channels. The results show that (1) digital village construction can significantly alleviate the poverty vulnerability of rural households. (2) Improving entrepreneurial activity is an effective way for digital village construction to affect the risk of rural households returning to poverty. (3) Digital village construction has a greater effect on reducing the poverty vulnerability of households in the eastern and the plains regions, and it is necessary to be vigilant against the emergence of the “digital divide”. Based on these findings, this paper proposes policy recommendations to prevent the risk of rural areas returning to poverty through digital village construction, which achieves sustainable poverty reduction and rural revitalization goals.

Keywords

• Digital village construction
• Poverty vulnerability
• Entrepreneurial activity
• Rural revitalization
• Sustainable poverty reduction