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Effects of Public Investment in Infrastructure on Growth and Poverty in India

Murty, K. N.; Soumya, A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Counter factual policy simulations of sustained increase in public investment in infrastructure, financed through borrowing from commercial banks, shows substantial increase in private investment and thereby output in this sector. Further, due to increase in absorption, real private investment...

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Macro economic effects of public investment in infrastructure in India

Murty, K. N.; Soumya, A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper attempts to build an aggregative, structural, macroeconometric model for India. Investment and output in the model are disaggregated into four sectors, viz., (a) agriculture including forestry & fishing, (b) manufacturing, (c) infrastructure, which includes power, transport,...

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Infrastructure?s Long-Lived Impact on Urban Development: Theory and Empirics

Grimes, Arthur; Apatov, Eyal; Lutchmann, Larissa; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014

We analyse the impacts that infrastructure provision has on long run urban development. The topic is of major importance to policy-makers when deciding whether or not to invest in major infrastructure projects. The analysis helps policy-makers to understand the intended, and potentially...

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Globalization, Infrastructure, and Inclusive Growth

Winters, L. Alan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014

This paper covers threes issues : first, defining and measuring inclusive growth; second, the relationship between international trade and inequality; and third, the links between infrastructure and inequality. Both international trade and infrastructure make it easier for people to exchange...

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Globalization, Infrastructure, and Inclusive Growth

Winters, L. Alan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014

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What about regions in regional science? An exercise of convergence using different geographic scales of European Union

Resende, Guilherme; Cravo, Tulio - European Regional Science Association - 2013

the empirical results caused by the use of different spatial scales in the analysis of convergence process of European … (MAUP). Thus, convergence processes among EU15 are examined across three spatial scales often used in applied work, namely …, NUTS1, NUTS2 and NUTS3, between 2000 and 2008. The paper suggests that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the …

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Economic growth and balance of payments constraint in Vietnam

Rieber, Arsène; Bagnai, Alberto; Tran, Thi Anh-Dao - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

Our paper examines the long run relationship between economic growth and the current account balance equilibrium by relying on the BoP constrained growth model. We find that Vietnam grew less than the rate predicted when the period 1985 to 2010 as a whole is considered, but with different...

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Trust, Confidence and Economic Growth An Evaluation of the Beugelsdijk Hypothesis

Volland, Benjamin - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey's question "In general, do you think that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?" - and economic growth, established by empirical...

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MEGACITIES AND COUNTRIES: URBANIZATION AND REAL CONVERGENCE

Barreiro-Pereira, Fernando - European Regional Science Association - 2014

, attracting immigration and amenities. Nevertheless, although it seems to have convergence among the big cities considered in this … convergence-divergence among 50 Mega-cities of the World, and the convergence-divergence among its corresponding countries, using … several growth models, studying the possible existence of Clubs convergence among these cities and countries. …

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