Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 15;19(6):3470. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19063470.
Ecological poverty alleviation launched by the Chinese government is an innovative green development measure that combines targeted poverty alleviation with ecological protection to realize the ecological environmental protection and income growth of the impoverished population. Based on the Chinese government's policy of poverty alleviation assessment for provincial government officials in 2016, this paper studies whether the assessment of government officials promote enterprises' participation in ecological poverty alleviation. Using the sample of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2016 to 2020, the empirical test shows that the more important the assessment of poverty alleviation by officials, the more likely local enterprises are to participate in targeted poverty alleviation and the higher the investment level is likely to be. The results pass a series of robustness tests. In addition, this paper further finds that enterprise participation in ecological poverty alleviation can effectively reduce local water pollution, air pollution and solid pollution, thus improving the ecological environment. It suggests that the assessment mechanism of Chinese government officials can effectively promote multi-dimensional ecological poverty alleviation. The contributions of this paper are as follows. Firstly, it is helpful to expand the relevant literature on enterprise environmental protection from the perspective of ecological poverty alleviation. Secondly, it is helpful to expand the literature related to government-enterprise interaction from the perspective of the assessment of government officials. Finally, it is helpful to enrich and expand the relevant literatures on promotion incentives of government officials from the perspective of ecological poverty alleviation.
中国政府发起的生态扶贫是一种将精准扶贫与生态保护相结合的创新绿色发展措施，旨在实现贫困人口的生态环境保护和收入增长。基于中国政府 2016 年对省级政府官员的扶贫评估政策，本文研究了政府官员的评估是否会促进企业参与生态扶贫。利用 2016 年至 2020 年中国 A 股上市公司的样本，实证检验表明，官员扶贫评估越重要，地方企业参与精准扶贫的可能性越大，投资水平也可能越高。研究结果通过了一系列稳健性检验。此外，本文还进一步发现，企业参与生态扶贫可以有效减少当地的水污染、空气污染和固体污染，从而改善生态环境。这表明中国政府官员的评估机制可以有效促进多维生态扶贫。本文的贡献如下。首先，它有助于从生态扶贫的角度扩展企业环境保护的相关文献。其次，它有助于从政府与企业互动的角度扩展与政府官员评估相关的文献。最后，它有助于从生态扶贫的角度丰富和扩展政府官员激励的相关文献。
