Urbanisation can bring economic benefits to Central Asia, but formal and informal barriers to internal migration are hampering movement away from rural areas. The World Bank associates higher levels of urbanisation with higher wages, less physically...
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Few people from outside emerging Europe have witnessed more changes in the region than Craig Turp, who has lived and worked across Central and Eastern Europe for almost...
BOOKR, a Hungarian literacy edtech start-up, receives more than two million euros in funding. BOOKR Kids, a Hungarian reading skills edtech start-up, has received two...
Smoking in the Western Balkans is bucking the European trend, with the number people consuming tobacco on the rise. Entrenched cultural norms, a lack of coherent...
Human rights groups are concerned that the EU is allocating funds to Central Asia with little regard for human rights abuses. The European Union (EU) should set...
An ongoing study wants to understand what it will take to bring the Polish tech diaspora closer to Polish businesses. Polish emigrants have long had a key impact on the...
Latvia leads the EU when it comes to the number of women in science and tech. For some time the European Union has sought to improve its wide gender imbalance in...
Both of Poland’s main political parties seem to be either uninterested or indifferent toward the deep reforms that Poland must undertake. Immanuel Kant defined...
Pushed by Covid-19, one of emerging Europe’s most cash-heavy economies is moving online. In Ukraine, the share of digital, non-cash transactions — in total volume...
Slovakia this past weekend tested around two-thirds of its population for Covid-19, some 3.6 million people aged between 10 and 65. Of those tested, 38,359 were found...
Covid-19 is laying bare the multiple pitfalls of the current socio-economic system across much of emerging Europe. Among them, the pandemic has highlighted that the...
Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, has said that the idea of a common, uniform minimum wage for the whole of the European Union is...
