关键词: 基础设施互联互通, 减贫, 亚投行, 技术创新, 全球化

Abstract: Promoting the infrastructure connectivity and reducing global poverty are the strategic meaning of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a win-win financing platform. Yet there is little research on the systematic identification of the poverty reduction effect of infrastructure connectivity. This paper uses panel data from AIIB?s 71 member countries from 2004 to 2018 to empirically test the poverty reduction effect of the infrastructure connectivity, and examine the impact mechanisms. It is found that infrastructure connectivity has a significant effect on poverty reduction and helps member countries achieve the goal of reducing poverty. With one standard deviation increase in the infrastructure connectivity index, the proportion of the poor population of the member countries will decrease by 1.992 percent, and the poverty gap will be reduced by 0.563 percent. After controlling endogenous problems and various robustness tests, this conclusion is still valid. Compared with developed countries, infrastructure connectivity creates more poverty reduction dividends for developing countries. Infrastructure connectivity affects poverty through the mechanisms of the technological innovation and the globalization. This paper enriches the research perspective of infrastructure connectivity and provides empirical support.

Key words: Infrastructure Connectivity, Poverty Reduction, AIIB, Technological Innovation, Globalization