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As the reach of mobile technology grows, it is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for access to welfare-enhancing information and services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, digital inclusion remains far from universal. Across LMICs, 14 per cent of adults still do not own...
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While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU, the diverging development of highly developed metropolitan regions and lagging rural areas has become a growing challenge especially for the new member states in Central and...
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Interest in territorial forms of organisation of production is currently at its peak, both among researchers striving to describe and explain various phenomena and among practitioners - representatives of authorities, entrepreneurs or experts involved in developing the idea. On this basis, the...
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At the beginning of the 21st century, the phenomena of shrinking cities spread widely over Europe. Cities shrank in peripheral, sparsely populated areas in Northern Europe, in Western European industrial agglomerations in economic decline, and in rural areas in Southern Europe suffering from...
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In recent years, start-ups and creative industries economy have recorded an extraordinary expansion. The geography of start-up and creative industries is often coincident with the factors of agglomeration economies and networking assets together with talent inherence and managerial culture,...
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Because broadband is widely believed to be a precondition for economic prosperity and social progress, many governments … have been improving the broadband environments in their respective countries. Net neutrality, which in its most basic form … requires "equal" treatment for all Internet traffic, should be considered only as a means of improving broadband rather than as …
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The implications of the experience in Europe with telecommunications policy design and broadband Internet development … access regulations. Using broadband Internet speed measurements, we assess the empirical relevance of characterizations of …
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In this paper, we demonstrate that there is more to consumer experience than just broadband access speed. We identify … consumer experience. We suggest that the relationship between broadband speed and consumer experience follows an inverted U … more nuanced understanding of the market for broadband Internet access products is outlined and a foundation for deriving …
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