The Impact of Digital Inclusive Finance on Agroecological Efficiency:Theoretical Framework,Mechanism Analysis and Spatial Spillover Effects
Traditional financial services are difficult to meet the financing needs of farmers due to information collection,service threshold,risk control and other reasons,which hinders the de-velopment of ecological agriculture to a certain extent.Digital inclusive finance can broaden the ac-cess to agricultural capital factors and lays a foundation for further improvement of agroecological efficiency.This paper uses China's provincial panel data from 2011 to 2020 to measure the agroeco-logical efficiency of each province in China,studies the impact mechanism,path and mode of digital inclusive finance on agroecological efficiency.The empirical results show that,digital inclusive fi-nance has a significant role in promoting the improvement of agroecological efficiency and has a spa-tial spillover effect.The transmission path is mainly based on the level of urbanization,scientific and technological progress,rural human capital and agricultural resource endowment,and shows different direct and indirect effects.Therefore,in order to achieve digital inclusive finance to help the development of agricultural eco-efficiency,the government should pay attention to the spillover effect when formulating relevant policies,rationally allocate various resources,and pay attention to the development of science and technology and the introduction of talents,so as to achieve the effec-tive improvement of agroecological efficiency.
digital inclusive financeagroecological efficiencythree-stage super-efficiency DEA-SBM modelspatial spillover effect