Projects
Culture and Economic Development. KU Leuven
This dissertation contains four chapters on comparative development, political economy, public economics and migration with focus on cultural values. The first chapter investigates the ancient origins of differences of cultural traits across countries; in particular, using a large set of measures of culture it identifies the cultural traits associated with genetic distances. The second chapter explores the direct and barrier effects of ...
Interdisciplinary Database on International Political, Economic and Legal Development KU Leuven
The aim of this project is to create an infrastructure that stimulates the development of interdisciplinary research. Data comes from different sources, such as academic institutions, international intergovernmental and private organizations, as well as some in-house developed datasets. As an integrated database, HerculesDB combines data from different sources and provides a unified view of this data. It standardizes data according to the ...
The multidimensional impact of rural and urban electrification: economic development, security and conservation? Follow-up research in Eastern Congo. University of Antwerp
The multidimensional impact of rural and urban electrification: economic development, security and conservation? Evidence from Eastern Congo. University of Antwerp
The multidimensional impact of rural and urban electrification: economic development, security and conservation? Evidence from Eastern Congo. University of Antwerp
International trade and economic development in the Austrian Netherlands, 1760-1790. University of Antwerp
An economic, geographical and institutional analysis of the development of the Chinese container port system. University of Antwerp
Blue BALANCE: Sustainable Economic Development of Flemish Coastal Areas For All Ghent University
General goal
The BLUE BALANCE project aims to create support among citizens and tourists for sustainable economic activities along the coast (including coastal protection, blue food, renewable energy, ports and tourism).
As the coastal region has already gone through numerous communication and citizen participation processes regarding the sustainable transition we are facing, the project aims to gain a good insight into the ...