Abstract:

A comprehensive assessment of the poverty reduction performance of region-based poverty policies is an objective requirement to consolidate the results of poverty alleviation in post-poverty era. This paper has collected the economic and social data of 832 poverty-stricken counties from 2013 to 2017 in China to analyze the impact of the place-based poverty policies on the economic growth of poor counties by DID. The empirical results show that the region-based poverty policies have a significant driving effect on economic growth of key poverty-stricken counties. The main source of the current economic increment is the increase in local savings income brought by the output of labor in poor counties, rather than local agricultural production or the upgrading of industrial structure.Therefore, it is of necessity to further promote the reform of the household registration system to ensure the channels income increase in export of labor service, utilize local resource endowments fully, promote the revitalization of industries with local characteristics, help endogenous rural development, and better play the poverty reduction role of region-oriented poverty alleviation policy.

Key words: region-oriented poverty alleviation policy, rural revitalization, state-level poverty-stricken counties, poverty reduction performance, modernization of national governance