International trade has been an important driver for the development of our modern world, but capturing trade patterns and their change over time continues to prove a daunting task. Painting a detailed picture of historical trade patterns not only puts a high demand on the availability and...

This paper studies the structure and the evolution of worldwide trade integration from 1880 up to 1995. Starting from historical trade and GDP data we use a state-space model to construct a bilateral historical trade index. This index is subsequently used to study globalization and the distance...

This report explains the construction of a set of indexes that summarise the performance on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for all 300 Flemish municipalities. The 2020 edition of the Flemish SDG index and monitor offers a number of improvements over the previous version, including an...