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An impact evaluation of investment in infrastructure : the case of the railway connection in Uzbekistan

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Abidhadjaev, Umid - 2015

The objective of this paper is to examine the nature and magnitude of the effects of infrastructure provision on regional economic performance. The empirical evidence of our analysis is based on difference-in-difference estimation linking the changes in the growth rate of regional-level economic...

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The impact of government support on the performance of Indonesia's state-owned enterprises

Nugroho, Hendro - 2019

This study analyzes the impact of government support on the financial performance of Indonesia's state-owned enterprises (SOEs). I employ the ordinary least square (OLS) method with firm and year fixed effects in addition to clustered standard errors. The findings show that government support...

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Quality infrastructure and natural disaster resiliency

Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Yoshino, Naoyuki; Mortha, Aline - 2019

A review of the academic literature on the topic has proved that most studies have been focused on how to finance the risk and indemnify the damages caused by an earthquake, rather than on mitigation measures. This study assessed the impact of quality infrastructure, development indicators and...

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Approaches to measure the wider economic impacts of high-speed rail and experiences from Europe

Rothengatter, Werner - 2019

The European Union introduced the concept of Trans-European transport networks in 1996 and developed it from a set of projects into a comprehensive network plan in 2013. The high-priority components of this plan (for 2050) are a core network and nine core network corridors (CNCs), which the...

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Reconstruction after a major disaster : lessons from the post-Tsunami experience in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand

Jayasuriya, Sisira K.; McCawley, Peter - 2008

This paper examines several aspects of the rehabilitation and reconstruction program that followed the 2004 tsunami in Asia. Almost 230,000 people died in the disaster. We focus on two main issues: aid delivery and reconstruction policy following the disaster. Although issues such as immediate...

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Trans-Pacific rebalancing : Thailand case study

Chalongphob Sussangkarn; Nikomborirak, Deunden - 2011

Since the Asian financial crisis in 1997, Thailand has become highly dependent on export as the engine of economic recovery and growth. In 2008, the ratio of export to gross domestic product (GDP) was 76.5%. The global economic crisis triggered by the sub-prime loans debacle in the United States...

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Globalization, infrastructure, and inclusive growth

Winters, Leonard Alan - 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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A framework to study the role of structural transformation in productivity growth and regional convergence

Fukao, Kyōji; Paul, Saumik - 2018

We show that σ-convergence in regional productivity growth can be approximated by σ-convergence in sectoral … productivity growth and σ-convergence in structural transformation-led productivity growth. Applying this framework to Japanese … prefecture-level data from 1874 to 2008, we find support for substantial convergence effects of structural transformation in the …

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The Republic of Korea's economic growth and catch-up : implications for the People's Republic of China

Lee, Jong-Wha - 2016

conditional convergence theory. Cross-country regression further suggests that the Republic of Korea's catch-up to the United … decades due to the convergence effect and with the rebalancing toward a domestic consumption and services-based economy. The …

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Two stages of economic development

Gong, Gang - 2016

This study suggests that the development process of a less-developed country can be divided into two stages, which demonstrate significantly different properties in areas such as structural endowments, production modes, income distribution, and the forces that drive economic growth. The two...

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