The Measurement of Green Finance Development Index and Its Poverty Reduction Effect: Dynamic Panel Analysis Based on Improved Entropy Method

Table 2

Measures of major variables.

Variable name	Variable meaning	Construction method
LPK	Poverty level	Logarithm of per capita consumption expenditure
GFI	Green financial development level	Green financial development index
CPI	Inflation level	Consumer price level
LROAD	Infrastructure construction	Logarithm of the number of road mileage
LGV	Government intervention in economic level	Logarithm of government expenditures
LOPRN	Economic openness	Logarithm of the total import and export volume
LEDU	Education level	The logarithm of the average number of students enrolled in higher education institutions per 100,000 people
LASSET	Financial asset development level	Logarithm of the total assets of financial institutions
LPGDP	The level of economic development	Logarithm of GDP per capita

Notes: because of space limitations, the statistical characteristics of only some indicators from 2017 are provided.