Georgia's railway network is a key segment of the TRACECA, the shortest route from the Caspian Sea and Central Asia to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Basin. Georgian Railway Corridor has a number of advantages over pipeline, alternative railways and auto transport. Changing the quality of...

The beginning of the 21st century was marked by the rapid development of transregionalization. China has also actively employed the tendency putting forward one of the largest projects in history – the Belt and Road Initiative. However, the sudden upsurge of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a...

Do national strategic interests influence how countries respond to a global health crisis? We answer this question in the context of China’s FDI flows into host countries under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and China’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Employing a newly available dataset...

This study investigates whether the increases in connectivity across cities help reduce the gender gap in labor market outcomes —a question for which there is limited prior evidence. With its high level of gender disparity, South Korea provides an ideal setting to study this issue thanks to...