In Ghana, informal commerce has been significant for many years and markets in urban areas are overpopulated and congested. The satellite market system was envisaged as a corrective and decongestion tool. However, after years of its implementation, the traditional markets such as the Kumasi...

The study illustrates how urban forest parks as scarce resources in congested Manila could be sustainable to enhance the social values of a stressful urban life. Urban forest is considered as woodland located in or near urban area that entails transformed forest vegetation and provides green...

This study on 'Bottleneck Vacancies 2015' was an exercise in examining the availability of data on shortage occupations across the EU member states Public Employment Services (PES), including Norway. It was requested by the European Commission as part of the 'Service contract for measures to...

Despite a substantial and prolonged exchange rate depreciation, South Africa's export performance has disappointed since the global financial crisis. In this paper we focus on the role of structural factors in reducing the responsiveness of South African exports to the real exchange rate...

We employ a detailed two-stage model to simulate the operation of the Central Eastern European electricity market and network. Implementing different cases of coordination in congestion management between national transmission system operators, numerical results show the beneficial impact of...