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Intercity Distance and Functional Complementarity in Chinese Megaregions 中国特大区域的城际距离与功能互补

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2026-01-25 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70105

Yixiao Wang, Bindong Sun

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Beyond Path Dependence: Local State Interventions and Firm Export Upgrading in China 超越路径依赖：中国地方政府干预与企业出口升级

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70107

Qi Guo, Haoyu Zhang, Yi Zhou, Zhiding Hu, Tinglin Wang

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Creative Economy and Slum Incidence in Developing Countries: Effect and Channels 创意经济与发展中国家贫民窟发生率：影响与渠道

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70102

Mbouombouo Adamou Nji Nchange, Dieudonné Mignamissi

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Bridging or Widening the Gap? How Urban Growth and Openness Shape Infrastructure's Impact on Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa 缩小差距还是扩大差距？撒哈拉以南非洲城市增长和开放如何影响基础设施对不平等的影响

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70103

Yousif Abdelbagi Abdalla, Atif Awad, Adam Yahya Jafeel, M. Azhar Hussain, Ilhan Ozturk

{"title":"Bridging or Widening the Gap? How Urban Growth and Openness Shape Infrastructure's Impact on Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Yousif Abdelbagi Abdalla, Atif Awad, Adam Yahya Jafeel, M. Azhar Hussain, Ilhan Ozturk","doi":"10.1111/grow.70103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.70103","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Income inequality remains a persistent socio-economic challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), posing a significant threat to inclusive growth and sustainable development. Although infrastructure development is widely promoted as a catalyst for economic progress, its impact on income distribution remains ambiguous and context-dependent. This study investigates both the direct and conditional effects of infrastructure on income inequality in SSA, with particular attention to how urbanization and trade openness may amplify or mitigate these impacts. Using a balanced panel of 44 SSA countries from 2005 to 2023, the analysis employs dynamic panel estimators (System GMM) alongside Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQREG) to capture distributional heterogeneity. The findings indicate that, on average, infrastructure expansion tends to widen income inequality; however, this effect is moderated by higher levels of trade openness and urbanization. Specifically, greater trade openness dampens the inequality-increasing effect of infrastructure and can occasionally reverse it, resulting in a slight reduction in inequality at higher openness levels. Likewise, accelerated urban population growth offsets the adverse distributional impact, with results indicating that an urban growth rate exceeding 6.5% neutralizes the inequality effect. The quantile regression results further confirm that the relationship between infrastructure and inequality is more pronounced at lower and median quantiles. These insights underscore the importance of integrated infrastructure planning, supportive trade policies, and inclusive urban governance to leverage infrastructure for more equitable development in SSA.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47545,"journal":{"name":"Growth and Change","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146058024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Effect of Land Transfer on Rural Collective Action: Evidence From Guizhou Province, China 土地流转对农村集体行动的影响：来自贵州省的证据

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70104

Jiayi Wang

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Unpacking Endogeneity: Growth, Discontent and Cohesion Policy in the EU Regions 拆封内生性：欧盟地区的增长、不满和凝聚力政策

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2026-01-09 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70097

George Petrakos, Stavroula Alexiou, Alexandra Sotiriou

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Human Capital and Regional Resilience: Nevada Computable General Equilibrium Approach 人力资本与区域弹性：内华达可计算一般均衡方法

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70099

Jaewon Lim, Euijune Kim, Aaron Colletta

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Bridging the Regional Innovation Gap: The Driving Role of Digital Governance in China 弥合区域创新差距：数字治理在中国的推动作用

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2026-01-07 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70098

Liping Li, Jie Peng, Bin Hu, Peiyu Li

{"title":"Bridging the Regional Innovation Gap: The Driving Role of Digital Governance in China","authors":"Liping Li, Jie Peng, Bin Hu, Peiyu Li","doi":"10.1111/grow.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.70098","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Digital governance (DG), functioning as a critical driver in regional innovation ecosystems, effectively promotes spatial equity and innovation equilibrium. Based on a panel of Chinese cities from 2010 to 2023, we treat the Internet + Government Services policy as a quasi-natural experiment of DG and apply a difference-in-differences model to analyze the impact of the DG on the regional innovation gaps (RIG). Results indicate that DG significantly narrows RIG, particularly in cities with advanced digital infrastructure, non-shrinking population, large-scale cities and abundant human capital. The mechanism analysis demonstrates that DG narrows RIG by eliminating disparities in the innovation environment and facilitating the cross-regional flow of innovation factors. This convergence effect predominantly originates from reducing RIG between developed and less-developed regions. Additionally, DG exerts a more pronounced promotional effect on innovation development in central municipal districts, while its effect on county-level areas remains relatively limited, thereby exacerbating the RIG within cities. These findings offer substantial implications for formulating targeted DG strategies to foster spatially balanced regional innovation development.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47545,"journal":{"name":"Growth and Change","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145963815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Does Digital Infrastructure Promote the Upgrading of Manufacturing Enterprises? Evidence From China 数字基础设施是否促进了制造业企业的升级？来自中国的证据

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2026-01-07 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70101

Xiujuan Lan, Zheneng Hu, Xuan Pei, Chuanhao Wen

{"title":"Does Digital Infrastructure Promote the Upgrading of Manufacturing Enterprises? Evidence From China","authors":"Xiujuan Lan, Zheneng Hu, Xuan Pei, Chuanhao Wen","doi":"10.1111/grow.70101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.70101","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The manufacturing industry (MI) in China has long been constrained by low-end lock-in. Digital infrastructure, as a solid foundation of the digital economy, has played an increasingly crucial role in economic growth as the digital transformation of global society accelerates. This raises an important question: Can the rapid development of digital infrastructure promote the upgrading of manufacturing enterprises (UME)? To investigate this, we selected manufacturing enterprises listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2004 to 2020 to empirically analyze the impact and mechanisms of digital infrastructure on UME. We find that digital infrastructure indeed significantly promotes enterprise upgrading. A heterogeneity analysis further reveals that this influence is more pronounced fro small-scale and low-tech manufacturing enterprises relative to large-scale or high-tech enterprises, and that it digital infrastructure contributes more to UME in underdeveloped rather than developed regions. Our mechanism analysis indicates that digital infrastructure supports UME by enhancing resource allocation efficiency and fostering technological innovation. These findings may have significant implications for developing countries, pointing toward a necessity for strengthening digital infrastructure and deepening its integration with the manufacturing sector. In particular, underdeveloped regions and small-scale, low-tech manufacturing enterprises should prioritize using digital infrastructure to advance the modernization of traditional manufacturing operations.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47545,"journal":{"name":"Growth and Change","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145963816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Asymmetric Impact of Urbanization on Food Security in Africa: Exploring the Moderating Role of Information and Communication Technology Using a Panel Quantile ARDL-PMG Approach 城市化对非洲粮食安全的不对称影响：利用小组分位数ARDL-PMG方法探索信息通信技术的调节作用

IF 2.1 3区经济学

Growth and Change Pub Date : 2026-01-06 DOI: 10.1111/grow.70100

Bello Nasiru Abdullahi, Hongmei Wang, Nazir Muhammad Abdullahi, Deng Baisheng, Buhari Nazifi, Taye Melese Mekie

{"title":"Asymmetric Impact of Urbanization on Food Security in Africa: Exploring the Moderating Role of Information and Communication Technology Using a Panel Quantile ARDL-PMG Approach","authors":"Bello Nasiru Abdullahi, Hongmei Wang, Nazir Muhammad Abdullahi, Deng Baisheng, Buhari Nazifi, Taye Melese Mekie","doi":"10.1111/grow.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.70100","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Africa's sustainable development is challenged by rapid urbanization and persistent food insecurity. It is critically important to understand how digital innovation can be used to shape the relationship between urbanization and food security. This study investigates the asymmetric impact of urbanization on food security in Africa, emphasizing the moderating role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Using a panel quantile Autoregressive Distributed Lag with a Pooled Mean Group (PQARDL-PMG) approach on data from 41 African countries (1990–2023), we examine how urbanization and ICT jointly influence the four dimensions of food security across varying contexts. Results reveal that increases in urbanization positively affect food availability and accessibility, while declines in urbanization significantly weaken utilization and stability. ICT improves food security outcomes, but its interaction with urbanization reveals asymmetric effects. Rising urbanization combined with ICT shows negative effects on food availability at higher quantiles, while ICT mitigates the adverse impacts of urban decline by improving availability, accessibility, and stability. Policy implications call for reorienting urban strategies to prioritize food systems, including protecting peri-urban farmland and strengthening rural-urban linkages through digitally enabled infrastructure.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47545,"journal":{"name":"Growth and Change","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145963847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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