The @premodern European transport network was accompanied by a number of institutions that affected the transaction costs related to commercial travel, such as fairs, staple markets and toll stations. With digital techniques and big datasets, it is now possible to study these phenomena on a...

A fragmented school network resulting from demographic shifts and regional economic developments can place a significant financial burden on education systems across OECD Member and non-Member countries. This is the case in Latvia, which has made the reorganisation of its school network a policy...

This paper examines the geographical distribution of multidimensional poverty in rural and urban India for the year 2021, utilising secondary data sourced from the NITI Aayog report 2021 based on the NFHS-4 dataset. The 2021 MPI, based on Alkire and Foster methodology, encompasses three...

Prices collection for consumer price indices (CPI) compilation has come a long way in the past 20 years. While ideally, the index should include expenditure made by all households, urban and rural, throughout the country, usually CPIs in various countries had limited geographic coverage both for...

Proper management of geothermal data is essential to the long-term development of geothermal resources at economically attractive costs. Even after a particulargeothermal resource has come on stream, the data gathered in the process may be useful in the development of other projects-if they are...

The affordability and availability of water and energy have a huge impact on food production. Research has shown that there exists a direct and indirect link between power production and clean water generation. Hence the inclusion/importance given to the energy-water-food (EWF) nexus in the...

Ostdeutschland ist in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten stark geprägt von der Abwanderung gen Westen. Diese Wegzüge größerer Bevölkerungsteile schwächen zunehmend auch die Wirtschaf, weil inzwischen Fachkräfe fehlen. In den vergangenen Jahren ist eine geringere Abwanderung aus diesen Regionen...