IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mes/emfitr/v60y2024i12p2703-2718.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Impact of Governments’ Digital Economy Procurement on Rural Household Entrepreneurship

Author

Listed:
  • Peiyao Guo
  • Zhichao Yin
  • Hengbo Zhu
  • Ke Gou

Abstract

Intangible digital technologies have advanced significantly over the past few decades. We examine the effects of government digital economy procurement programs on rural household entrepreneurship using data from the Chinese Household Finance Survey, China Grassroots Governance Survey, and Chinese government procurement data from 2015 to 2019. We find that the likelihood of rural household entrepreneurship is greatly increased by the government acquisition of products in the digital economy. Our mechanism analysis shows that government digital procurement could have an impact on rural household entrepreneurship by easing credit restrictions, encouraging the growth of distinctive industries, and improving government information disclosures. Furthermore, the effects of government procurement in the digital economy are particularly noticeable in counties characterized by e-commerce and industry integration. The paper offers insightful policy recommendations for the use of digital initiatives to support rural economic development in emerging economies.

Suggested Citation

  • Peiyao Guo & Zhichao Yin & Hengbo Zhu & Ke Gou, 2024. "The Impact of Governments’ Digital Economy Procurement on Rural Household Entrepreneurship," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 60(12), pages 2703-2718, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:60:y:2024:i:12:p:2703-2718
    DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2024.2308182
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1540496X.2024.2308182
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/1540496X.2024.2308182?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:60:y:2024:i:12:p:2703-2718. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/MREE20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.