Does Digital Inclusive Finance Effectively Promote Agricultural Green Development?—A Case Study of China

Hua Guo, Fan Gu, Yanling Peng, Xin Deng and Lili Guo
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Hua Guo: College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Fan Gu: College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Yanling Peng: College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Xin Deng: College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Lili Guo: College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: Agricultural green development is increasingly being discussed in sustainable development. This paper constructs agricultural green development from four dimensions: resource savings, environmental protection, ecological conservation, and quality industrialization. We apply the entropy-weighted Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method to measure agricultural green development and employ a panel dataset of provinces in China from 2011–2019. Then, the dynamic spatial Durbin model is adopted to estimate the spatial effect of digital inclusive finance on agricultural green development. The main findings are as follows: (1) digital inclusive finance effectively promotes agricultural green development, and the promotional effect shows temporary and spatial spillover; (2) regional heterogeneity exists in the spatial effect in the short and long term; and (3) education, digital infrastructure, and traditional finance are important factors influencing this spatial effect of digital inclusive finance on agricultural green development.

Keywords: digital inclusive finance; agricultural green development; dynamic spatial Durbin model; entropy-weighted TOPSIS method; sustainable development; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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