Towards common prosperity: can Environmental regulations help narrow income gap in China? DOI Creative Commons
Jun Zhao, Kangyin Dong, Rabindra Nepal

et al.

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 20, 2025

Language: Английский

Does rural e-commerce drive up incomes for rural residents? Evidence from Taobao villages in China DOI
Ning Zhang, Wantong Yang, Haiqian Ke

et al.

Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 82, P. 976 - 998

Published: April 27, 2024

Language: Английский

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8

Does the cross‐border e‐commerce comprehensive pilot zones policy affect the urban–rural income gap in China? DOI
Bing He,

Da Xu,

Guoqi Nan

et al.

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 83(4), P. 773 - 792

Published: June 10, 2024

Abstract With the development of Internet technology and modern supply chains, cross‐border e‐commerce (CBEC) has become one most important forms international trade. The impact this new mode trade on economic growth income disparity is worthy further examination. This study treats CBEC pilot zone policy as a quasi‐natural experiment, using difference‐in‐differences approach to examine its urban–rural gap. findings showed that: (1) significantly widened gap; (2) innovation, entrepreneurship, export are paths toward expanding gap, but digital environment suppresses these paths; (3) gap shows distinct regional heterogeneity. provides several recommendations how promote balanced incomes.

Language: Английский

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7

Aggravating or alleviating? Smart city construction and urban inequality in China DOI
Zhen Yang, Weijun Gao, Qing Han

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Technology in Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 77, P. 102562 - 102562

Published: April 26, 2024

Language: Английский

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5

Social robots in the context of corporate participation in rural revitalization: A binary legitimacy perspective DOI
Jian Ding, Zhao Mu, Jiaxin Wang

et al.

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 205, P. 123033 - 123033

Published: June 14, 2024

Language: Английский

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5

Digital Inclusive Finance, Rural Loan Availability, and Urban–Rural Income Gap: Evidence from China DOI Open Access
Jianwei Gao,

Yuxin Wu,

Haiwei Li

et al.

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(22), P. 9763 - 9763

Published: Nov. 8, 2024

Reducing the urban–rural income gap stands as a pivotal factor in attaining sustainable economic development. Policymakers and researchers have focused on whether digital inclusive finance can narrow gap. Utilizing provincial-level panel data from 31 regions China, this paper empirically tests impact of across different areas specifically analyzing mediation effect rural loan availability. The findings indicate that (1) expansion enhance inclusiveness financial services gap; (2) exhibits regional heterogeneity; (3) availability has gap, but its growth will weaken narrowing (4) reduction attributable to nonlinear relationship with level urbanization. This recommends guiding transformation institutions enhancing farmers’ literacy increase loans areas. Furthermore, implementing region-specific policies regulations could effectively

Language: Английский

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5

Realising rural economic transformation: Pathways to inclusive and sustainable prosperity in post-COVID-19 Asia DOI Creative Commons
Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Dil Bahadur Rahut

Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 77, P. 1076 - 1082

Published: Jan. 16, 2023

The world is adjusting to regain control over direct economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This adjustment occurring whilst global collective action also gearing up tackle climate change, avert biodiversity collapse and redress unsustainable growth practices that featured in pre-Covid era activity for decades. pandemic experience since December 2019 has been a period pronounced anxiety inspiration. Despite angst widespread calamity, loss six million lives, coordinated effort helped contain well short initial predictions. Progress toward eliminating poverty, central goal rural transformation, set back by strength organising - through social business processes marked resilience endured. recovery patchy uneven across individual nations, medium-term prospects remain contingent on efficacy funding essential human services clear market bottlenecks. Bridging capacity constraints rural-urban continuum need ease regulatory burden as tackles externalities past create new opportunities. In this special issue, emerging established academics from Asian region beyond, draw insights research analysis challenges facing policy makers, businesses, households raising living standards inspiring pursuit affluence during these uncertain but opportune times.

Language: Английский

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12

Sustainability of rural tourism in poverty reduction: Evidence from panel data of 15 underdeveloped counties in Anhui Province, China DOI Creative Commons
Fuwei Wang, Lei Du,

Minghua Tian

et al.

PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 18(3), P. e0283048 - e0283048

Published: March 13, 2023

Based on the characteristics of underdeveloped areas, this paper selects panel data 15 counties in Anhui Province from 2013 to 2019 and uses threshold model empirically analyze sustainability rural tourism development. The results show that: (1) Rural development has a non-linear positive impact poverty alleviation areas double effect. (2) When rate is used express level, it can be found that at high level significantly promote alleviation. (3) number poor people reduction effect shows marginal decreasing trend with phased improvement tourism. (4) degree government intervention, industrial structure, economic development, fixed asset investment play more significant role Therefore, we believe need actively establish mechanism for distribution sharing benefits, form long-term reduction.

Language: Английский

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12

A blessing or a curse? Can digital economy development narrow carbon inequality in China? DOI Creative Commons
Congyu Zhao, Jianda Wang, Kangyin Dong

et al.

Carbon Neutrality, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 2(1)

Published: July 17, 2023

Abstract The importance of carbon emissions reduction notwithstanding, the issue its inequality should also elicit urgent attention scholars. This paper first evaluates between urban and rural areas based on a panel dataset 30 provinces in China from 2006 to 2019. Then we quantitively investigate role digital economy development reducing inequality. We further explore possible moderating residential disposable income impact channels nexus find that (1) relationship is negative, exerts significant mitigating (2) heterogeneous terms capital: endowed with lower levels social human capital tend exhibit stronger connection (3) Rural can not only reduce inequality, but show synergistic effect development, which means interaction restricts significantly. (4) Digital works by increasing environmental regulation technology innovation, these two propose several policy implications accelerate improvement development.

Language: Английский

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12

Clean energy use and subjective and objective health outcomes in rural China DOI Creative Commons

Huanyu Zhu,

Wanglin Ma, Puneet Vatsa

et al.

Energy Policy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 183, P. 113797 - 113797

Published: Sept. 9, 2023

This study analyses the impact of clean energy use on rural residents' subjective health outcomes (self-reported status, change, and discomfort) objective (bronchitis, asthma, medical expenditure, fitness expenditure). Using an inverse probability-weighted regression adjustment estimator 2018 China Family Panel Studies data, we address selection bias associated with estimate treatment effects. The empirical results show that farmers using (liquid gas, natural methane, solar energy, or electricity) as primary cooking fuel report improved health, a lower probability physical discomfort, higher expenditures than non-users. Clean does not significantly affect self-reported having bronchitis expenditures. effects men differ from those women; they also vary across different economic strata. We find farmers' decisions to are positively their educational level, household income, whether rent farmland, happiness levels but negatively related age, family size, own real estate, ratio elders in household.

Language: Английский

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Targetedness, effectiveness, and sustainability of China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation programmes DOI
Chaoqing Yuan,

Tianli Ding,

Bin Wu

et al.

Energy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 300, P. 131515 - 131515

Published: May 5, 2024

Language: Английский

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