Effects of Poverty Alleviation Policies on Regional Economic Resilience: Evidence from the Wuling Mountain Area of China

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Exploiting the 2012 policy launch as a quasi-natural experiment, a difference-in-differences approach shows that CAEP significantly enhances regional economic resilience, mainly through improved resistance capability and adaptability capability, while effects on transformation capability remain limited. Financial resource allocation and human capital development are key channels. Policy impacts are moderated by geographic and institutional constraints, highlighting the importance of place-specific implementation for sustaining resilience gains. Policy impacts are shaped by local geographic and institutional conditions, with stronger effects in counties with less rugged terrain and lower population density, while excessive government intervention weakens resilience gains, underscoring the need for place-specific policy implementation. economic development economic resilience Difference-in-differences poverty alleviation policy Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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