Analysis of the Effect of China’s Educational Fiscal Expenditure on Poverty Reduction Based on FGT Index*

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10.2991/aebmr.k.191225.014How to use a DOI?

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FGT index, education fiscal expenditure, poverty reduction effect

Abstract

The role of poverty suppression in education is receiving increasing attention. According to the 1995-2017 China Rural Income Grouping Data, this paper uses the World Bank Povcalnet online poverty measurement tool to measure China’s 1995-2017 FGT index including poverty breadth, poverty depth, and poverty intensity, and uses it as an indicator of poverty. The vector error correction model is used to empirically analyze the relationship between education fiscal expenditure and poverty breadth, poverty depth and poverty intensity. The results show that the fiscal expenditure of education has a significant inhibitory effect on the breadth of poverty. However, for the depth of poverty and the intensity of poverty, it has not exerted the inhibitory effect of application. On the contrary, it still has a positive effect on poverty to a certain extent. At the same time, economic growth remains the most important driving force for poverty reduction in China.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qian Li
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/01/07
TI  - Analysis of the Effect of China’s Educational Fiscal Expenditure on Poverty Reduction Based on FGT Index*
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Economics, Management, Law and Education (EMLE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 74
EP  - 81
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.191225.014
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.191225.014
ID  - Li2020
ER  -