This study empirically analyzes factors influencing the coupling and coordinated development of rural urbanization and rural finance. For this purpose, the study employs the coupling degree model and develops a panel quantile model to estimate the co...
Rural revitalization constitutes a vital strategic initiative in advancing China’s socialist modernization. At the 2023 Central Economic Work Conference, the objective of building China into a financial powerhouse was formally articulated, ther...
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...
Digital inclusive finance is an important policy for promoting rural industrial development in China. Can digital inclusive finance effectively contribute to the development of rural industries? What is its driving mechanism? Clarifying these questio...
Improving the cultural consumption level of rural residents is of great practical significance to help revitalize rural culture and achieve common prosperity. Based on this, this study empirically examines the role and impact mechanism of digital inc...
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...
Based on the Chinese county-level panel data from 2014–2018, in the study reported in this paper, we empirically tested the “complementarity and substitution” effects of internet finance and rural finance on rural economic developme...
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...
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...
Inclusive finance is an important development direction in the future of finance. The development of inclusive finance in China’s rural areas has provided valuable experience as well as exposing the various limitations of sustainable developmen...
6 July 2022
Global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have exacerbated climate variation. Climate variation impacts the agricultural production and rural residents’ income negatively, further widening the urban-rural income gap and harming the co-benef...
Poland is affected not only by a persistent regional differentiation but also by an internal polarization of regional development levels, particularly in rural areas. Local government authorities, especially municipalities, play an important role in...
The application of digital inclusive finance in various industries, particularly in rural areas, is gaining significant attention. The traditional agricultural sector, which focuses on rural labor economics (RLE), is more sensitive to financial innov...
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...
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 research examines how digital inclusive finance reshapes the rural labor market using an auditable index system and an interpretable learning pipeline. We construct a four-pillar framework for the rural labor market covering labor behavior, labor...
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....
Based on the survey data of 43 rural commercial banks in Jiangsu Province, China, from 2015 to 2018, 14 indicators among 3 dimensions—coverage, business implementation and service quality—were selected to establish the inclusive finance i...
Addressing the persistent urban-rural income gap is critical for sustainable and inclusive development. Leveraging panel data from 286 Chinese prefecture-level cities (2005–2022) and a multi-period difference-in-differences design, this study e...
Land finance has become an important way of generating fiscal incomes in developing countries, while the urban–rural income gap (URIG) in developing countries remains high. However, existing research has not paid much attention to the connectio...
14 January 2026
The entrepreneurial ecosystem theory posits that regional development emerges from synergistic interactions among entrepreneurs, institutions, and markets. This study positions entrepreneurial vitality as the core catalyst synchronizing digital inclu...
The complex interplay between digital finance (DF) and household carbon emissions (HCEs) represents a critical subsystem within the broader socioeconomic–ecological system driving climate change. This paper presents estimates of HCEs based on p...
This study examines the role of the supply chain finance (SCF) ecosystem as an innovative financial framework in driving the high-quality development of rural industries. Using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces (2004–2022), we employ a fixed...
This study examines the coupling coordination between digital inclusive finance (DIF) and rural industrial integration development (RIID) in China from 2011 to 2021, using panel data from 282 prefecture-level cities. By employing the coupling coordin...
In the global South, low-income populations are faced with frequent health shocks. Formal mechanisms to protect them against these shocks are absent or limited. Thus, what are the mechanisms used by low-income rural populations to finance healthcare?...
Rural revitalization is an important strategy to promote sustainable development of rural areas in China. Rural revitalization listed companies play an important role in implementing the rural revitalization strategy and developing the agricultural i...
12 March 2022
The development of digital financial inclusion helps create a healthy rural financial ecological environment and plays an important role in integrating rural tertiary industries. This paper incorporates digital financial inclusion into the rural tert...
Rural credit is one of the most critical inputs for farm production across the globe. Despite so many advances in digitalization in emerging and developing economies, still a large part of society like small farm holders, rural youth, and women farme...
The deployment of renewable energy (RE) needs to be policy-driven and supported by public funds. Hence, the aim of this study was to find out whether urban and rural areas benefit from public funds for RE deployment equally and whether factors determ...
Effective management of village funds is central to financing sustainable and equitable rural futures, particularly in underdeveloped and resource-diverse regions such as Papua, Indonesia. This study explores the governance factors that shape the sus...
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...
How to release rural consumption potential is currently of great significance for the sustainable economic growth of the developing world. Using representative survey data from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this paper studied the impacts...
Digital inclusive finance (DIF) is regarded as a key instrument in poverty alleviation efforts. However, existing research reveals significant gaps in understanding its poverty-reduction impact: the debate on its inclusivity remains unresolved, its m...
This paper uses panel data from the 2014–2020 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to study the impact of digital inclusive finance (DIF) on the cultural consumption of urban and rural residents using two-way fixed effects. The results show that D...
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?...
This study evaluates the impact of green finance on agricultural non-point source pollution control and emission reduction in 30 Chinese provinces from 2005 to 2022. Utilizing the entropy value method and the unit survey inventory method, the researc...
21 February 2022
After a long struggle against poverty, the problem of absolute poverty among Chinese rural residents has been solved, but the problem of relative poverty still exists. With digitalization, the ecological environment of rural inclusive finance has bee...
The broad inclusiveness of digital inclusive finance is essential for promoting coordinated regional development. This paper focuses on the impact of digital inclusive finance on creating county enterprises, discussing its heterogeneity in terms of r...
The development of digital village construction to improve rural family resilience (RFR) is emerging as a key focus area and target of China’s rural revitalization strategy. However, there is limited evidence available on the impacts of digital...
In the context of advancing agricultural and rural modernization in China, digital agriculture has gained significant governmental attention. However, existing research has predominantly focused on examining the relationship from digital inclusive fi...
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has proposed to promote green development, which is an important concern in realizing agricultural green development (AGD). Based on the connotations of AGD, the mechanism of th...
It is well known that finance is at the core of economic activities, and rural finance is an important force for agricultural development, rural economic growth, and farmer income growth, but how rural credit affects vulnerability to poverty of farm...
This paper constructs a comprehensive index system for agricultural multifunctionality extension to measure the agricultural multifunctionality development level in 30 sample provinces in China from 2011 to 2019, builds a model to explain theoretical...
Digital inclusive finance (DIF) plays an active role in preventing poverty-stricken groups from returning to poverty and reducing poverty. This paper empirically tests the impact of DIF on rural poverty alleviation using panel data from 30 Chinese pr...
In recent years, the Chinese government has been continuously promoting reduced use of chemical fertilizers and enhancing the sustainable development capacity of agriculture. This study uses China’s Household Finance Survey (CHFS) data to explo...
21 February 2023
E-commerce has the potential to address problems in the agricultural supply chain and support the implementation of rural revitalization strategies. Previous research has largely focused on the business models of rural e-commerce platforms, but has n...
Financing measures and incentive schemes for (existing and new) building owners can promote the sustainable settlement development of rural regions or municipalities and, in a wider sense, entire countries or cross-border regions. In order to be used...
The imbalance of rural human–land relationships has become a notable problem in China’s urbanization process. The dual urban–rural system is widely regarded as the crucial factor contributing to this problem in China. Although the s...
The development of rural finance has an important impact on agricultural development. This study is to quantitatively evaluate the efficiency of rural agriculture financial support in China and empirically analyze its influencing factors. Based on th...
In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, rural women agripreneurs encounter ongoing structural challenges in accessing formal finance, securing land rights, and gaining leadership roles, despite their vital contribution to agriculture and food s...
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