The impact of the digital economy on carbon emissions has become a topic of contention
due to the paucity of guiding theoretical and empirical research. This study presents a …

Using data from the 2015 China Household Financial Survey (CHFS) this paper examines
the effect of culture on the gender gap in financial literacy. We exploit geographical …

Cultivated land transfer serves as an efficient way to mitigate the escalating issue of
cultivated land abandonment due to labor migration driven by the urban-rural gap, while …

Urban-rural income gap (URIG) has been documented for decades but its theoretical
explanation, spatiotemporal distribution characteristics and the influencing factors remains …

Sustainable Development Goal 10 (SDG10) proposes the reduction of inequalities. This
research highlights the importance of considering short-and long-term mechanisms for …

Background Unmet healthcare needs have increasingly been recognised as an indicator of
equity of healthcare access and utilisation, having the potential to capture frailty of health …

Urban–rural imbalance is a common phenomenon, and its prominent manifestation is the
sustained expansion of the urban–rural income gap. For emerging countries, this gap …

Although China has been successful in reducing national income inequality over the past
decade, regional income inequality shows a fluctuating trend. The pre-tax income shares of …

The third-party governance of environmental pollution (TEG) is a market-oriented
mechanism designed to attract social capital to participate in ecological environmental …

The sustainability of social pension insurance is of great significance in guaranteeing the
essential life of the elderly and promoting social stability. Based on the provincial panel data …