Study on the Impact of Land Remediation on Regional Poverty Governance: An Empirical Analysis Based on VAR Model

Abstract

Land consolidation has an important impact on regional poverty reduction. It gradually integrates into the precise poverty reduction strategy and becomes one of the powerful measures to innovate the poverty reduction and development methods. Based on the data of 31 provinces in China from 2005 to 2015, this paper uses VAR model to make an empirical study on the dynamic causal relationship between land consolidation and regional poverty management. The research shows that (1) there is an interactive relationship between land consolidation and poverty management, and it is a positive feedback function of each other, indicating that land consolidation has a positive promoting effect on regional poverty management; (2) According to the impulse response function diagram, the impact of land consolidation on poverty reduction has been rising rapidly from the first stage to the second or so stage and declining until the third or so stage is reduced to zero. The impact of poverty reduction on land consolidation shows a downward-upward fluctuation until the fifth or so stage is reduced to zero. This shows that if a positive impact is given, land consolidation and poverty reduction will interact. (3) From the variance decomposition chart, it can be found that land consolidation and regional poverty alleviation interact with each other. After Phase 2, both parties have maintained a high level towards each other.