In Romania, the issue of economic inequalities and regional convergence is one of the current important topics on which the attention of economic specialists and the decision-making factors is focused. In the current context, the regional policy in Romania is implemented at regional level, the...

We study the role of Dutch colonial institutions on urban development for the megacity of Jakarta, Indonesia. Using historical maps of Dutch settlements and a rich granular database, we implement a boundary discontinuity design comparing locations within 200 meters of Dutch boundaries. We find...

Various social policies and strategies have been deliberated and used within many countries to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of those basic ideas are strongly related to the understanding of human social interactions and the nature of disease transmission and spread. In this paper, we...

Urban green infrastructure, such as parks and reforestation programs, is critical for building municipal resilience to environmental, social, and economic concerns. The Metro Forest Project in Bangkok shows this by converting an abandoned site into a thriving biological forest utilizing the...

This study investigates the socioeconomic implications of farm-to-market road infrastructure on rural development in Zamboanga Sibugay Province, Philippines. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, including surveys, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions, the research explores how...

This study explores the integration of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Genetic Programming (GP) to address key challenges in the development of smart cities as cyber-physical systems (CPS). The primary objective is to enhance decision-making processes, optimize resource allocation, and...

Greenhouse gas emissions caused by urban residents' energy consumption arise from the 1) transportation and 2) housing sectors. This energy consumption depends on the population distribution of the city. This study quantitatively examines the effectiveness of congestion tolls, carbon tax, and...

This study has been focusing on the vulnerability of street vendors in Java since the time when Java was hit severely by the economic crisis in 1997/1998, which also had reversed the trend of economic formalization in Indonesia. For this aim, a survey was conducted during the month of February...

Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...

The efforts of the European Commission to reduce regional inequalities over its territory continues to attract the attention of researchers. The purpose of this paper is to perform an exploratory investigation of the relationship between the spatial distribution of regional income and of...