Abstract
This article examines the influence of social capital on the sustainable livelihood ability of rural households who are out of poverty, in order to promote the sustainable development of their livelihood. Based on the survey data of 371 out-of-poverty households in rural Jiangxi, we analyzed the relationship between social capital and households’ sustainable livelihood ability using “Ordinary Least Square (OLS) + robust standard error” regression models and quantile regression models. Households’ social capital was measured from the following three dimensions: social network, social participation, and social trust. The benchmark regression models showed that social capital index, social network, and social participation all had a significant positive effect on the sustainable livelihood ability of out-of-poverty households. However, the impact of social trust on sustainable livelihood ability was not significant. In addition, the quantile regression analysis results showed that social capital index, social network, social participation, and social trust all contributed the most to households with a low sustainable livelihood ability. Therefore, it is suggested to improve the social capital accumulation of out-of-poverty households from multiple dimensions, so as to enhance the sustainable livelihood ability of households and consolidate poverty-alleviation achievements.
Highlights
Poverty exists in every country, which hinders the development of human civilization [1,2]
We explored the impact of social capital on sustainable livelihoods at different levels from the perspectives of social networks, social participation, and social trust in order to provide a valuable reference for consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation
Average sustainable livelihood ability is 52.74%, indicating that most out-of-poverty households still live on transfer income
Summary
Poverty exists in every country, which hinders the development of human civilization [1,2]. It can be said that the history of human development is an anti-poverty process [3]. The economic development foundation of poverty-stricken areas is still weak, the employment of out-ofpoverty laborers is still unstable, and some of the out-of-poverty households still have the risk of returning to poverty. This indicates that poverty alleviation should change from eliminating absolute poverty to alleviating unbalanced and insufficient relative poverty [4]
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