The Northwestern part of Bangladesh has a tremendous variety in geography and means of subsistence. The rangeland resources of this area have been deteriorated as a result of climate change, human influences, a lack of environmental and rangeland legislation, inadequate disaster mitigation plans...

New digital methods are currently enhancing the historian’s toolbox fundamentally. This thematic issue is a collection of papers discussing case studies in the fields of digitization, optical character recognition, distant reading, text mining, network analysis, and historical geographical...

This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property tax billing, collection and enforcement. We then...