A Study on the Role of Rural Revitalization in Preventing Rural Poor Households from Returning to Poverty Based on the Sustainable Livelihood Theory

Abstract

It is the key to poverty alleviation under the rural revitalization strategy to implement the accurate poverty alleviation effect and prevent and control the return to poverty. In this paper, based on the sustainable livelihood theory, the micro-survey data of 20 poor villages in Anhui Province were taken as the research object to empirically analyze the influence of individual capital, family capital, natural capital and social capital on the risk of returning to poverty in rural areas. The empirical results show that social capital and natural capital have the greatest impact on the risk of rural poor households returning to poverty among the four types of capital in the sustainable livelihood theory, followed by individual capital, and family capital has the least impact. The size of family population has a negative impact on the risk of rural poor households returning to poverty, the number of children in the family has not passed the significance test, and the other indicators have passed the significance test and have a positive impact, which effectively explains the influencing factors of the risk of rural poor households returning to poverty. Further analysis shows that the long-term employment of householders and their geographical location around towns have the greatest impact on the risk of poor rural households returning to poverty.