Research Article

Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative on Poverty Reduction in Countries along the Route

Table 7

Mediation effect test results.

VariablesTrade opennessInvestment openness
Model 1Model 2Model 3Model 4

did0.062−0.2420.044−0.252
lnTrade−0.217
lnFDI−0.077
Control VariablesYesYesYesYes
Country-FeYesYesYesYes
Year-FeYesYesYesYes
Constant7.48513.1421.52411.632
R20.0530.6610.0210.653

Note. and indicate that statistics are significant at the 10% and 1% level of significance, respectively.