Digital inclusive finance & the high-quality agricultural development: Prevalence of regional heterogeneity in rural China.

ABSTRACT: Developing digital inclusive finance is one of the most effective ways to alleviate financial exclusion in the agriculture sector. For empirical investigation, data from 30 provinces of Rural China is collected from the period 2011 to 2020. The study constructs five dimensions and 22 indicators in total to critically conduct the impact of digital inclusive finance on high-quality agricultural development. The level of agricultural development is measured by entropy weight TOPSIS, and the impact of digital inclusive finance on its high-quality development is empirically tested. The results show that digital inclusive finance has significantly improved the agricultural sector and, particularly, the Eastern region of China has the greatest impact. Three dimensions of digital inclusion finance

SUBMITTER: Li H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10042377 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature