China's fast growth has been accompanied by rising regional inequality, triggering debate over a policy trade-off between aggregate growth and equity. We set out a three-region model of China in which local government behavior affects local TFP dynamics, and regional inequality itself generates...

Improving people's livelihood resilience against risks and challenges plays an important role in consolidating the achievements of poverty reduction. The paper uses 64 poverty-stricken counties in China's Sichuan province as the study area and explores the link between spatial segregation and...

Our project focuses on social inequalities in cancer which means that low socio-economic status people have a higher burden of cancer compared to high socio-economic status people. And this is no longer acceptable.

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a tick-borne viral (Nairovirus , family Bunyaviridae) infection first identified in the Crimean region in 1944. It is one of the most widely distributed arboviral diseases in the world, ranging from southern Russia and the Black Sea region to the...

A growing literature examines the effects of poverty, inequality and polarization on civil war but analyses typically use spatially aggregated data. Many civil wars exhibit great spatial heterogeneity so very local effects may be obscured. We study Nepal's civil war that escalated sharply from...