Table 2 Correlations between government investment and poverty.

From: The effects of China’s poverty eradication program on sustainability and inequality

Pearson coefficient

Proportion of the population living in extreme poverty

Proportion of the poverty-stricken counties of the province

GDP

Governmental investment on (US$ per capita)

Solar energy facility

0.318

0.487**

−0.250

Biogas facility

0.502**

0.379*

−0.529**

Small rural hydropower

0.787**

0.828**

−0.506**

Ecological construction and protection

0.287

0.367*

−0.041

Forestry industry development

0.115

−0.060

−0.200

Livelihood projects of forestry

0.099

0.126

−0.264

Educational expenditure

0.079

0.215

0.442*

Health expenditure

0.187

0.357*

0.293

Transportation expenditure

0.462**

0.628**

−0.112

Housing security expenditure

0.456**

0.641**

−0.149

  1. Government investment in various items comprised total investment from 2010 to 2020 at the provincial level; the proportion of the population living in extreme poverty was taken as the average value for the province from 2010 to 2020; the classification of poverty-stricken counties in each province was based on the results presented in Fig. 3; GDP represented the average GDP at the provincial level from 2010 to 2020.
  2. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01.
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