6 The Challenges for Active Travel in the Islands of Malta

Abstract

While the UN definition speaks about sustainable transport, the World Bank Group uses the term "mobility". The differentiation between transport and mobility is unclear, however, transport is traditionally linked to transport modes, sectors, the physical infrastructure, systems, networks, economic efficiency, and technical parameters (Barr, Prillwitz, Ryley, & Shaw, 2017).The purpose of transportation is to overcome space. This goal is attached to efficiency in terms of time and money (Rodrigue, Comtois, & Slack, 2016).

Labour productivity growth in Malta : a sectoral decomposition analysis

“…Other productivity-enhancing reforms included the restructuring of the energy sector (Rapa, 2017), the introduction of low-cost airlines in the late 2000s (Attard, 2020), and numerous labour market reforms (Micallef, 2017). The latter consisted of policies aimed at increasing the labour supply, such as tax incentives, pension reforms, and free child-care centres, and initiatives to strengthen the employability of certain target groups, such as training schemes and the gradual tapering of social benefits for the long-term unemployed.…”