scholarly journals Financial inclusion in China: an overview

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Weidong Chen ◽  
Xiaohui Yuan

AbstractFinancial inclusion has become an important development strategy in many countries, and related research is increasing. Financial inclusion in China has had significant progress recently. It has gradually formed a unique and sustainable development path with supporting policies and regulations as well as rapid development and application of digital technology. While challenges remain, the experience of Chinese financial inclusion provides valuable lessons and research directions for policymakers and researchers.

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
A. V. Gluschchenko ◽  
E. P. Kucherova ◽  
M. V. Denisov

The global economic system is at the stage of its active formation and development. Its borders and conditions of existence are constantly changing, which is accompanied by crises, which affect the economic systems of all countries participating in the world economy. The current global fnancial crisis, which is global and systemic, revealed a lack of effective theoretical approaches to the development of practical methods for overcoming the crisis phenomena used in the management of integrated agro-formations. This predetermines the need to improve the system of global crisis management that contributes to an adequate response to crises and is based on innovative approaches and the application of modern concepts of sustainable development in order to ensure economic security. The globalization of the fnancial and food markets, on the one hand, allows the agro-holdings to compare and evaluate the effciency of investment simultaneously within the entire international economy; expand and strengthen the fnancing capacity of various economic projects. On the other hand, qualitative changes in the global economy are of a deep and risky nature, due to the rapid development of fnancial innovations, which leads to an insuffcient degree of development of the system of ensuring economic security of international activities of economic entities. As a result of the analysis of the activities of integrated agro-formations, the current trends in the development and functioning of agricultural holdings in the context of the global fnancial crisis have been revealed. The specifcs of ensuring sustainable development of agrostructures in the context of global crisis management are defned: soil-climatic, biological, ecological, technological, and organization of agricultural territories. A model for ensuring the economic security of the agricultural holding through a sustainable development strategy was developed and justifed, including the following elements: a mission, a goal and a system of balanced indicators. The decomposition of the activities of integrated agro-formation into groups of balanced indicators has been made: fnance, customers, internal business processes, training and development, competitors and on-farm decomposition system. The internal and external threats to economic security, which are the basis for the selected groups of the BSS (balanced scorecard system) for integrated agro-formations, are singled out. Fields of economic security of the agro-structure (critical, low, normal and high) are defned, as well as sustainable development strategies for each feld, allowing to move from a critical level of economic security to the high one.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Hang Wu ◽  
Ching Ju Chiu ◽  
Yen Ju Liou ◽  
Chun Ying Lee ◽  
Susan C. Hu

BACKGROUND There is still no consensus on research terms for smart healthcare worldwide. The study conducted by Lewis 10 years ago showed extending geographic access was the major health purpose of health-related information communication technology (ICT), but today's situation may be different because of the rapid development of smart healthcare. Objective: The main aim of this study is to classify recent smart healthcare interventions. Therefore, this scoping review was conducted as a feasible tool for exploring this domain and summarizing related research findings. OBJECTIVE The main aim of this study is to classify recent smart healthcare interventions. Therefore, this scoping review was conducted as a feasible tool for exploring this domain and summarizing related research findings. METHODS The scoping review relies on the analysis of previous reviews of smart healthcare interventions assessed for their effectiveness in the framework of a systematic review and/or meta-analysis. The search strategy was based on the identification of smart healthcare interventions reported as the proposed keywords. In the analysis, the reviews published from January 2015 to December 2019 were included. RESULTS The number of publications for smart healthcare's systematic reviews has continued to grow in the past five years. The search strategy yielded 210 systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses addressed to target groups of interest. 68.5% of these publications used mobile health as a keyword. According to the classification by Lewis, 37.62% of the literature was applied to extend geographic access. According to the classification by the Joint Commission of Taiwan (JCT), 48.84% of smart healthcare was applied in clinical areas, and 60% of it was applied in outpatient medical services. CONCLUSIONS Smart healthcare interventions are being widely used in clinical settings and for disease management. The research of mobile health has received the most attention among smart healthcare interventions. The main purpose of mobile health was used to extend geographic access to increase medical accessibility in clinical areas. CLINICALTRIAL none


Author(s):  
Stephany Griffith-Jones ◽  
José Antonio Ocampo ◽  
Paola Arias

Based on the seven case studies analysed in this volume, this chapter concludes that national development banks (NDBs) have been successful in many cases in supporting innovation and entrepreneurship, key new sectors like renewable energy, and financial inclusion. They have developed new instruments, such as far greater use of guarantees, equity (including venture capital) and debt funds, and new instruments for financial inclusion. The context in which they operate is key to their success. Active countercyclical policies, low inflation, fairly low real interest rates, a well-functioning financial sector, and competitive exchange rates are crucial. They are also more effective if the country has a clear development strategy, linked to production sector strategies that foster innovative sectors. Under these conditions, the chapter argues that there is great need for a larger scale of NDB activity in Latin America and in developing countries in general.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seokwoo Choe ◽  
Sung Min Kim ◽  
Yeji Lee ◽  
Jin Seok ◽  
Jiyong Jung ◽  
...  

AbstractPhotocatalytic N2 reduction has emerged as one of the most attractive routes to produce NH3 as a useful commodity for chemicals used in industries and as a carbon-free energy source. Recently, significant progress has been made in understanding, exploring, and designing efficient photocatalyst. In this review, we outline the important mechanistic and experimental procedures for photocatalytic NH3 production. In addition, we review effective strategies on development of photocatalysts. Finally, our analyses on the characteristics and modifications of photocatalysts have been summarized, based on which we discuss the possible future research directions, particularly on preparing more efficient catalysts. Overall, this review provides insights on improving photocatalytic NH3 production and designing solar-driven chemical conversions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6612
Author(s):  
Peter Jones ◽  
Martin Wynn

The increasingly stellar attraction of the digital technologies and the growing, though not universal, consensus of the need to build a sustainable future, are two powerful trends within society. The aim of this article is to offer an exploratory review of how the leading companies within the digital transformation market have addressed sustainable development. As such, the article’s originality and value lie in offering a review of current corporate thinking within that market. The study adopts an inductive, qualitative approach based on an examination of published company reports, and identifies six major sustainability themes being actively promoted and supported. The article concludes that the current sustainability objectives of the technology companies are driven as much by commercial reality as any altruistic motives, and that support and promotion of the circular economy may offer the best opportunity for digital technologies to meaningfully impact sustainable development.


Author(s):  
Tian Yan ◽  
Yuanli Cai ◽  
Bin Xu

AbstractThe rapid development of hypersonic vehicles has motivated the related research dramatically while the evasion of the hypersonic vehicles becomes one of the challenging issues. Different from the work based on the premise that the pursuers’ information is fully known, in this paper the evasion guidance for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles (AHVs) against unknown pursuer dynamics is studied. The gradient descent is employed for parameter estimation of the unknown dynamics of the pursuer. The energy-optimized evasion guidance algorithm is further developed by taking the acceleration constraint and energy optimization into consideration. Under the proposed algorithm, the system can deal with the unknown pursuer dynamics effectively and provide more practical guidance for the evasion process. The simulation results show that the proposed method can enable the AHV to achieve successful evasion.


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