Google Classroom as a Tool of Support of Blended Learning for Geography Students [PDF]
The article reveals the experience of organizing blended learning for geography students using Google Classroom, and discloses its potential uses in the study of geography. For the last three years, the authors have tested such inclass and distance courses as "Cartography and Basics of Topography", "Population Geography", "Information Systems and ...
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Investigating internal migration with network analysis and latent space representations: An application to Turkey [PDF]
Human migration patterns influence the redistribution of population characteristics over the geography and since such distributions are closely related to social and economic outcomes, investigating the structure and dynamics of internal migration plays a crucial role in understanding and designing policies for such systems.
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Global economic effects of war‐induced agricultural export declines from Ukraine
Abstract The war in Ukraine caused export disruptions that jeopardized the availability and affordability of agricultural and food products around the world. This research employs a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to understand the global economic effects of war‐induced agricultural export declines from Ukraine, given the inability to
Amanda M. Countryman+4 more
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Important Event in Japanese Studies (About the Book 'Socio-Economic Geography of Japan', edited by I.S. Tikhotskaya) [PDF]
The article is a review of the book 'Socio-Economic Geography of Japan' edited by I.S. Tikhotskaya and published in 2016. It is noted that this book shows the changing socio-economic geography of Japan not in isolation from the rest of the world, it ...
Eugene Borisovich Kovrigin
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Modélisation spatiale de la formation des agglomérations dans la zone algéroise [PDF]
The goal of this study is to analyze the dynamics underlying Algiers urban area formation with reference to The New Economic Geography (NEG) theories and more precisely to the paper of Paul Krugman (1991), "Increasing returns and economic geography" which explains the mechanisms of economic activities concentration through two types of forces ...
arxiv
The Great Equalizer: Medicare and the Geography of Consumer Financial Strain [PDF]
We use a five percent sample of Americans' credit bureau data, combined with a regression discontinuity approach, to estimate the effect of universal health insurance at age 65-when most Americans become eligible for Medicare-at the national, state, and local level.
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Patterns and heterogeneity in credit repayment performance: Evidence from Malian farmers
Abstract Formal credit can enhance farmers' purchasing power, increase productivity, and enforce resilience throughout the agricultural sector. Therefore, analyzing bank clients and credit data in the agricultural sector is of interest. This study aims to (1) investigate distinct cluster patterns among the bank's farmer clients in Mali utilizing ...
Tim Ölkers+3 more
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The article presents a discussion on the anatomy of place-making within the framework of the communication processes against the background of social order in a post-socialist city.
Kotus Jacek+3 more
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Returning home: An evaluation of Hungarian return migration
This paper deals with the Hungarian return migration process and the importance of identity changes for migration decisions. Outmigration of labour force from Hungary and other East Central European countries has intensified after the EU accession in ...
Gábor Lados, Gábor Hegedűs
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Behind the Eastern-Western European convergence path: the role of geography and trade liberalization [PDF]
This paper proposes a two blocks and three regions economic geography model that can account for the most salient stylized facts experienced by Eastern European transition economies during the period 1990 2005. In contrast to the existing literature, which has favored technological explanations, trade liberalization is the only driving force. The model
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