Does microcredit for the poverty-alleviated population have an income-increasing effect? Also on the "Raising the Low" effect.

ABSTRACT: Promoting the continuous income increase of the poverty-alleviated population has become one of the key tasks to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation, promote rural revitalization and achieve common prosperity. Based on the survey data of 738 farmers in six poverty-alleviated counties (cities) in an underdeveloped region in northwest China, this paper uses the endogenous transformation regression model to empirically explore the income-increasing effect of microcredit for the poverty-alleviated population, and uses the quantile regression model and OLS regression model to explore raising the low effect of microcredit for the poverty-alleviated population. The results show that: (1) Based on the counterfactual hypothesis, if the farmers who obtain microcredit for poverty-alle

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12316256 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature