Does Subsistence Allowance Promote Poverty Reduction Resilience of Rural Households?Also on the Improvement of China's Subsistence Allowance Policy
Rural subsistence allowance is an important social security policy that targets impoverished(low-income)families and serves as a crucial measure for consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation.As the core component of"social assistance",subsistence allowance will continue to play a positive role in the new stage of development.Drawing on the data from the Chinese Social Survey in 2021,this paper defines and scientifically meas-ures the connotation of household poverty reduction resilience from the perspectives of absolute poverty and relative poverty.Regression analysis reveals that subsistence allowance can significantly enhance the poverty reduction re-silience of rural households,and this effect becomes greater with the increase of resilience standards.Mechan-ism testing indicates that subsistence allowance affects the poverty reduction resilience of rural households by augmenting household welfare income and enhancing human capital investment.In addition,based on the con-structed poverty reduction resilience indicators for rural households,it reveals that China's current target rate for subsistence allowance is at a relatively low level.The conclusions of this paper have important implications for consolidating and expanding the achieve-ments of poverty alleviation and improving the subsistence allowance system in China.Starting from the per-spective of poverty reduction resilience,it examines the impact and target rate of subsistence allowance on the poverty reduction resilience of rural households,emphasizing the need for dynamic identification of low-in-come families.In addition,it underscores the necessity not only to provide"blood transfusions"to rural households,but also to enhance their own"hematopoietic function",thus preventing the social phenomenon of"nurturing laziness"through subsistence allowance.
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