Research on Anti-poverty Effect of Government Fiscal Expenditure - Evidence from China

This paper aims to explore the impact of fiscal expenditure on rural poverty. In this study, MPI index and FGT index are used to measure the degree of rural poverty in the east and west respectively, and the impact of fiscal expenditure scale and structure on rural poverty is studied. The results show that the scale of fiscal expenditure has a significant negative impact on multidimensional poverty in rural areas. Various projects of productive fiscal expenditure have alleviating effects on the incidence and depth of poverty in rural areas, while the impact of special poverty alleviation expenditure on rural poverty is different to some extent. In this regard, we should further expand fiscal expenditure and improve the structure to achieve better results in poverty reduction in rural areas.