Digital finance can reduce the urban–rural income gap, but the digital divide may limit this effect. This study develops a theoretical framework to explore the interactions between digital finance, the digital usage gap, and income disparity. U...
Currently, the Chinese government is considering two major strategies, namely, developing the digital economy and achieving common prosperity, to address regional development imbalances. Using panel data from 276 Chinese cities spanning from 2011 to...
Based on theoretical analysis, this study examines the relationship between the development of China’s digital economy and the urban–rural income gap by using an empirical model to test panel data for 30 provinces in China from 2009 to 20...
The digital economy has promoted the income growth of rural residents in China, but it has also widened the income gap within rural areas. The excessive income gap will lead to the uneven distribution of social resources and the decline of efficiency...
Reducing the disparity in consumption between urban and rural areas, as a critical component in mitigating the economic imbalance between them, holds significant importance in enhancing people’s sense of well-being and achieving collective pros...
Rapid technological evolution defines the first two decades of the millennium. This phenomenon has increased the digital gap, disparities, and inequalities in global and local contexts. This paper reports a systematic literature mapping of 180 articl...
The combination of digital technology and finance has brought about a new development model for financial inclusion. What impact will it have on the current imbalance in the distribution of financial resources and the urban-rural income gap in China?...
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 the urban–rural income gap. Utilizing...
25 October 2021
The main goal of this research is to explore whether there are any differences by gender regarding the Digital Competence of Teachers (DCT), both in-training and in-service. Simultaneously, the specific goals of the research are to analyse which are...
The digital economy has significant economic structural transformation effects and income distribution effects. This article analyzed the impacts and mechanisms of digital economy development on the efficiency of dual-economic factor allocation and t...
Can the backward endowments of rural areas support digital village construction to attain the expected results? If the answer is yes, what are the mechanisms involved? Answering these questions is related to common prosperity. Counties are China&rsqu...
With the rapid development of digital inclusive finance, whether it can lower the income inequality between urban and rural areas has been the focus of policy makers and researchers. Based on China’s 2011–2018 provincial panel data, this...
The effect of digital finance on the income disparity between urban and rural areas has attracted wide attention from scholars, and this paper focuses on the mediating role of employment structural transformation, which can contribute more insights t...
Human capital is a key factor in the economic growth and sustainable development of a country. However, the impact of digitalization on human capital accumulation and the urban-rural human capital gap in China is seldom a focus in the literature. Thi...
Digital village construction is not only a vital component of the digital China strategy but also a crucial measure by which to realize common prosperity. This study theoretically elaborates the influence of digital village construction on the urban&...
Extensive gaps in terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point cloud data can primarily be classified into two categories: occlusions and dropouts. These gaps adversely affect derived products such as 3D surface models and digital elevation models (DEMs),...
Digital rural construction (DRC), as a crucial intersection of the rural revitalization strategy and the construction of Digital China, is a key path to addressing the imbalance and inadequacy in the urban–rural income gap (URIG). Based on prov...
This paper empirically studies the impact of digital inclusive finance on the income structure of urban and rural residents in eastern, central, and western China. The results show that, first, digital inclusive finance is beneficial to narrowing the...
This study investigates how the digital economy empowers urban network intensity to address the dilemma of “low-efficiency lock-in” and to promote high-quality and balanced innovation development. Based on panel data from 264 prefecture-l...
Although extant literature has extensively discussed the poverty reduction effect of digital financial inclusion, few papers have explored the association from a spatial perspective. Based on the Peking University Digital Financial Inclusive Index, t...
Using a balanced provincial panel of 31 Chinese regions (2014–2022), this study examines how Digital Inclusive Finance (DIF) and Rural E-Commerce (RE) jointly shape the urban–rural income gap. Two-way fixed effects and instrumental-variab...
Excessive income gap (IG) between urban and rural areas harms the quality of economic development, and imbalanced primary distribution (PD) as well as redistribution (RD) are considered to be the main factors contributing to the urban–rural IG....
This study uses panel data from 2016 to 2020 to examine the impact of digital financial inclusion on income inequality in the urban-rural divide of Chongqing, China. The results suggest that increasing access to digital financial services could help...
For a country like China, which places equal emphasis on economic development and environmental governance, the exploration of the potential of digital transformation to enhance corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance is of...
This study examines the spatial crime perception gap (SCPG), the mismatch between perceived and actual crime, which can lead to unnecessary avoidance behaviors, anxiety, or lack of vigilance. While few studies have explored this phenomenon from a spa...
The objective of the research is to know whether the use of technologies in the teaching of sciences, in the face of more traditional methods, influences gender differences, justifying the low enrolment of women in technical careers. The study was de...
This paper investigates the impact of digital economy development on regional income gaps within provinces in China, focusing on the underlying mechanisms and multidimensional threshold effects. Using provincial panel data from 2011 to 2021, this stu...
This study presents research aimed at analyzing whether, in contrast with traditional methodologies, the usage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the process of learning mathematics affects gender distinctions by affecting the lo...
The United Nations (UN) identifies four key elements as agents for change and for addressing societal challenges: education, research, innovation and leadership. The use of technology, from a pedagogical and organizational point of view, in higher ed...
Digitalization offers an opportunity to narrow the economic gap between urban and rural areas; however, there are fragmented and competing explanations regarding its impact mechanisms. Responding to calls for research on the complex effects of digita...
The swift advancement of the industrial economy has depleted resources and degraded the environment, hindering global economic growth. Digitalization provides a novel approach to decrease carbon emissions and enhance the environment. This study utili...
In today’s world, new and advanced forms of technology are increasingly providing great changes in universities, thus generating new possibilities and impacting pedagogy and learning methodology. Unfortunately, not all students can use these to...
Background: This study compared the influence of three different radial spacers (60,90,120 microns) on the marginal gap adaptation by using computer-aided manufacturing (CAD-CAM) for producing monolithic zirconia reinforced lithium silicate (ZLS) cer...
This study addresses the urgent challenge of safeguarding sensitive health data in today’s digital age by proposing a novel, integrated data protection framework that synthesises six critical pillars—technology, policy, cybersecurity, leg...
The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has shed light on the urgency of bridging the digital divide to guarantee equity in the fruition of different services by all citizens. The inability to access the digital world may be due to a lack of network infrastr...
Digital photography of cavitation in narrow gap flows, e.g., lubrication films in journal bearings or squeeze film dampers, demands a high time-resolution and a solution to approaching the particular spatial restrictions. Typically, the lubrication f...
Digital twins, understood as computational replicas of poultry production systems updated in real time by sensor data, are increasingly invoked as transformative tools for precision livestock farming and sustainable agriculture. They are credited wit...
The Hu line is a geo-demographic demarcation line in China. The eastern side of the line supports more than 96% of the population, despite constituting less than 44% of the national territory. The domestic household consumption level gradually exhibi...
There is a need to ensure that healthcare organisations enable their workforces to use digital methods in service delivery. This study aimed to evaluate the current level of digital understanding and ability in nursing, midwifery, and allied health w...
Women in emerging economies face unique constraints rooted in cultural norms, socio-economic disparities, and limited access to education and technology. Narrowing the digital gender gap by ensuring access to financial services may reduce the economi...
Digitalization has reshaped economic systems worldwide, yet its distributional consequences remain uneven and raise new challenges for sustainable development. China, where digital infrastructure has expanded rapidly, provides a critical setting to e...
Rapid access to building intelligence is critical for emergency response, yet paper fire safety instructions (FSi) often provide limited utility under stress. This structured narrative review addresses the “information gap” between unit a...
This study examined impacts of digital technology on a key component of the socioeconomic gap in education—gaps in student classroom engagement. Whereas print literacy has long been a source of such gaps, newer “digital divide” theo...
Reducing dependency on chemical pesticides is a core ambition of the European Green Deal, yet adoption of low-input practices remains uneven. This systematic review synthesizes evidence on the behavioural determinants of European farmers’ knowl...
18 October 2021
Financial inclusion is strongly differentiated by age groups and countries and the pandemic has highlighted the increased gaps and inequalities but also the weaknesses of the system, in terms of flexibility, access and facilities of the customer-bank...
Online hate speech poses a growing socio-technological threat that undermines democratic resilience and obstructs progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG 16). This study examines the regulatory and behavioral dimensions of this phenomeno...
Mental health concerns are common among university and college students. Digital mental health resources and support are offered through university websites. However, the content and type of mental health activities of these institutions have not bee...
The digital application gap and relative poverty caused by the development of digital technology are both important factors affecting sustainable economic dynamics. This paper explores the impact of digital technology development on the relative pove...
Rural digitalization not only constitutes the strategic orientation of rural revitalization but also serves as a potent means for augmenting farmers’ income. This study regards the implementation of China’s digital village pilot policy as...
Kaprekar’s routine, i.e., sorting the digits of an integer in ascending and descending order and subtracting the two, defines a finite deterministic map on the state space of fixed-length digit strings. While its attractors (such as 495 for
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