Project description:With the rapid development of digital technology, the digital economy has become an important force to promote economic growth and drive innovation, and to enhance economic quality and ecological efficiency through green finance. Additionally, green finance, as an important means to achieve resource and environmental sustainability, has received increasing attention and importance from the international community. This study explores how the digital economy and green finance contribute to economic resilience using panel data from 30 provinces and cities in China from to 2011-2023. The development of the digital economy can effectively promote economic resilience, and green finance plays a significant mediating role between the digital economy and economic resilience. In this regard, China's economic resilience must be enhanced by strengthening the construction of digital infrastructure, promoting innovation and the development of green finance, and formulating a policy environment conducive to the development of green finance.

| S-EPMC11801606 | biostudies-literature

Incentives and barriers to private finance for forest and landscape restoration.

Project description:Increased private finance can accelerate forest and landscape restoration globally. Here we conduct semi-structured interviews with asset managers, corporations and restoration finance experts to examine incentives and barriers to private restoration finance. Next, we assess what type of restoration projects and regions appeal to different private funders and how current financial barriers can be overcome. We show that market incentives for corporations include meeting net-emission-reduction commitments, impact and sustainable branding opportunities, and promotion of sustainability in supply chains. Conversely, asset managers face stronger barriers to investing in restoration as it is deemed a high-risk, unknown investment with low profitability. We find that investment finance biases towards restoration projects in low-risk areas and corporate finance towards areas with business presence. Both private finance types tend to omit projects focusing on natural regeneration. Through expanded and diversified markets for restoration benefits, strong public policy support and new financial instruments, private finance for restoration can be scaled for a wider variety of restoration projects in more diverse geographical contexts.

| S-EPMC10172125 | biostudies-literature

Digital inclusive finance, consumer consumption and high-quality economic development.

Project description:Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and China's pursuit of the "double circulation" strategy, scholars are increasingly focusing on ensuring high-quality economic development in China. In this regard, digital inclusive finance and consumer consumption are of utmost significance. This study employs panel data from 30 provinces and cities spanning 2011 to 2020 to explore the impact of digitized inclusive finance on consumer consumption and high-quality economic development through a spatial econometric model. Our findings indicate that integrating digital finance with consumer consumption and economic development fosters high-quality economic growth. Furthermore, our semi-parametric spatial lag model suggests a nonlinear relationship between digital inclusive finance and high-quality economic growth, shaped like an inverted "U". Additionally, we examine the mediating effect of consumer consumption on the relationship between digital inclusive finance and high-quality economic development. Our results reveal a substitution effect between digital inclusive financing and consumer consumption in promoting high-quality economic development. Therefore, it is essential to promote the development of digital inclusive finance, harness its positive spillover effects between regions, and encourage an increase in consumer consumption to optimize the consumption structure, upgrade and adjust the industrial structure, and spur growth in emerging industries.

| S-EPMC10449199 | biostudies-literature

Cuts in NHS waiting lists cannot be attributed to private sector

Project description: Not available

| S-EPMC1309673 | biostudies-literature

NHS economic evaluation database for healthcare decision makers

Project description: Not available

| S-EPMC27424 | biostudies-literature