This paper contributes to the debate on domestic revenue mobilization and statebuilding in the Global South by asking whether there are fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa. To answer this question, we review the diverse understandings of the fiscal state across relevant literatures and explore...

We utilize the recently updated UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset, which covers key indicators on tax and non-tax revenues for 196 countries since the 1980s, to study the dynamics of government revenue tax collection across selected periods from 1985 up to the most recent available year...

Dieser Band präsentiert zu 24 Themen in über 1100 Zeitreihen Daten für die Zeit seit dem 19. Jahrhundert und ordnet sie fachwissenschaftlich in die jeweiligen historischen Kontexte ein. Er bietet einen breit gefächerten und verlässlichen Einblick in die Historische Statistik von Deutschland...

In machine learning and data science literature, clustering is the task of dividing the observations (data points) into several categories in such a way that data points falling into one group are being dissimilar than the data points falling to the other groups such that the variation within a...

EU integration is a strategic priority and a clear perspective for 4 countries of the Western Balkans region, currently holding the status of the candidate country. Fulfilment of the Copenhagen criteria has played an increased role in the discussions of the EU accession and enlargement...

Die Verfügbarkeit von kleinräumigen und aktuellen Pendlerverflechtungen sind für politische wie auch kommunale Entscheidungsfindungen von hoher Bedeutung. Aus dem Pendlerverhalten lassen sich Rückschlüsse auf Arbeitsmarktregionen und die Verteilung der Wohnbevölkerung ziehen, was unter...

The article describes and analyses data on the homeless population that are available in the Cadastro Único. The aim is to present some input to the betterment of public policies, offering a diagnostic of the current situation in Brazil. The article also presents a method for the compilation,...

The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted citations versus total citations, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A new Index of Citations Quality (ICQ) is presented, based on quality weighted citations....

The paper analyses academic journal quality and impact using quality weighted citations that are based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A recently developed Index of Citations Quality (ICQ), based on quality weighted citations, is used to analyse...

The paper is concerned with ranking academic journal quality and research impact in Finance, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI (2013) Web of Science citations database (hereafter ISI). The paper analyses the 89 leading international journals in the ISI category of "Business - Finance"...