In June 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union (Brexit). It took until January 2021 before a trade deal was finally agreed and the UK's departure was com- pleted. There have been a number of studies have sought to estimate the impact of Brexit on the UK's regions, mostly using...

Our focus in this paper is on a somewhat curious feature of evolutionary economic geography, namely that although concerned with evolution - with processes of historical change and transformation - evolutionary economic geography seems not to take history as seriously as it would be expected to...

Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) physical geography is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's geographical location does, however, not only determine its agricultural conditions or disease environment. It also pins down a country's relative position vis-à-vis other countries,...

Over the past two decades, China has embarked on an ambitious program of expressway network expansion. By facilitating market integration, this program aims both to promote efficiency at the national level and to contribute to the catch-up of lagging inland regions with prosperous Eastern ones....

Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) physical geography is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's geographical location does, however, not only determine its agricultural conditions or disease environment. It also pins down a country's relative position vis-à-vis other countries,...