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Unhealthy lifestyles in deprived communities are stoking a series of economic and policy challenges in the UK, a new paper from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) suggests.
The paper says health inequalities between the richest and poorest have reversed the post-1945 increase in life expectancy, while boosting both NHS waiting lists and welfare spending. It has also driven the politically toxic post-Brexit rise in immigration through distorting local labour markets – exacerbating other national challenges such as the housing shortage.
Without a major drive aimed at deterring unhealthy lifestyles, the paper warns, health inequalities and the economic and social pressures they breed will continue to soar.
Recently, Associate Professor Xiaolong Feng from the College of Economics and Management at China Agricultural University, together with researchers from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), has addressed these questions through a comparative analysis of agricultural subsidy policies in China and Africa. The related article has been published in Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering (DOI: 10.15302/J-FASE-2025624).
Recently, an in-depth study addressing this question was jointly conducted by Associate Professor Ting Meng from the College of Economics and Management at China Agricultural University, in collaboration with researchers from the Research Institute for Eco-civilization of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Alliance of Biodiversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (Senegal). The study offers systematic solutions for developing countries, and the related article was published in Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering (DOI: 10.15302/J-FASE-2025646).