Housing is a core element of people’s material living standards. It is essential to meet basic needs, such as for shelter from weather conditions, and to offer a sense of personal security, privacy and personal space. Good housing conditions are also essential for people’s health and affect...

Is corruption capable of spreading across national borders? This paper uses panel data for 120 countries from 1995 to 2012 to evaluate whether the corruption levels of neighboring countries, as weighted by the relative joint border length, affects domestic corruption. Including country fixed...

Contents: 1. Unravelling the nexus between entrepreneurship, neighbourhoods and communities - Introduction / Reinout Kleinhans, Darja Reuschke, Maarten van Ham, Colin Mason and Stephen Syrett -- Part I - Neighbourhoods as economic places and enterprise cultures -- 2. Entrepreneurship and...