Grassroots Public Resource Distribution,Elite Capture and Relative Poverty:An Empirical Study on Mechanism of Poverty Caused by Lack of Individual Information Literacy
The state-led allocation of public resources is intended to increase the economic participation of those who are competitively disadvantaged in the marketplace,but elites are more likely to exploit their roles to gain addi-tional benefits from public resources.This phenomenon is known as elite capture.Using the utility function,this pa-per provides a mathematical analysis of the mechanism by which the differences in individual information literacy lead to relative poverty,and empirically tests the mathematical model using data from a filed survey.The study finds that,within the constraints of individual educational attainment,elites with an information literacy advan-tage are more likely to have access to public resources and to receive additional benefits.Elite capture is prevalent among those with less than or equal to 9 years of education received,and the individual educational attainment rein-forces the positive effect of one's information advantage on additional benefits obtained from public resources.On the contrary,there is no evidence of elite capture among those with more than 9 years of education.In the context of the information society,the analysis of the informational mechanism of elite capture not only helps to ensure that public resources tangibly benefit the target population,but also helps to provide new ideas for the design of policies that reconcile the consolidation of progress in poverty elimination with the strategy of rural revitalization from the perspective of individual information literacy.
information poverty reductionrelative povertyelite capturepublic resource distribution
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