The 8th Cohesion Report presents the main changes in territorial disparities over the past decade and how policies have affected these disparities. It highlights the potential of the green and digital transitions as new drivers of EU growth, but argues that without appropriate policy action new...

The 8th Cohesion Report presents the main changes in territorial disparities over the past decade and how policies have affected these disparities. It highlights the potential of the green and digital transitions as new drivers of EU growth, but argues that without appropriate policy action new...

The full-scale military invasion of Ukraine launched by the Russian Federation on 24 February 2022 has displaced one third of the population of Ukraine, that is, about 15 million people, creating the largest population displacement in Europe since World War II. While it is estimated that over 7...

Local protectionism disrupts buyer-supplier chains, since it requests local firms to buy the outputs of other local firms as inputs. Hence, it is an important factor for firms' location choices, as buyer-supplier chains affect profitability. I study how local protectionism shapes the spatial...

This study examines the spatial distribution of cash machines (ATMs) and bank branches in Switzerland. We estimate actual travel distances and times to the closest cash withdrawal point based on the Swiss road network. We find that Swiss residents overall have easy access to cash: They live...

We study the dynamics of the exploitation of a natural resource distributed among and flowing between several nodes connected via a weighted, directed network. The network represents both the locations and the interactions of the resource nodes. A regulator decides to designate some of the nodes...

This paper analyses male-female disparity in the probability of survival up to 15 years of age in districts of India. Based on estimates derived from the summary birth history data available from 2011 population census, the paper reveals that in majority of the districts of the country,...

In the US rural (non-MSA) areas have lagged behind urban areas both in terms of per capita personal incomes (PCPI) and poverty rates. This study examines how 2019 state-level ratios of urban to rural PCPI varies with state-level urbanization rates, poverty rates and unemployment rates. The...

Brazil displays a geographic and institutional diversity unique in the world. It extends in a north-south direction rather than the east-west of other countries of similar size. Given the current debate on the relative role of geography and institutions in determining income levels, Brazil...

The present study is an attempt to analyse the pattern of block-level socio-economic deprivation and development using secondary data from district statistical handbook and district census handbook in Purulia district of West Bengal. Three methods such as deprivation index, average deprivation...