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Infrastructure development, income inequality, and urban sustainability in the People's Republic of China

Mendoza, Octasiano M. Valerio - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between infrastructure development and income inequality in urban People's Republic of China. Recent policies target reductions in income inequality while increasing sustainable urban development. Infrastructure investment plays a key role in achieving both...

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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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The fiscal risk of local government revenue in the People's Republic of China

Fan, Ziying; Wan, Guanghua - 2016

Since the Tax Sharing Reform in 1994, the local government revenue of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has faced downward risk problems. This paper reviews the fiscal and taxation reforms in the central and local governments of the PRC and focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of fiscal...

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The impacts of infrastructure in development : a selective survey

Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2015

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, while proper identification of the causal effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is...

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Digitalization and economic performance of two fast-growing Asian economies : India and the People's Republic of China

Sahoo, Dukhabandhu; Nayak, Suryakanta; Behera, Jayanti - 2021

This paper aims to identify the role of digitalization and infrastructure in two fast-growing Asian economies, namely India and the People's Republic of China (PRC), within the growth framework from1990 to 2019 by using panel 2SLS and the NARDL technique. The results show that internet and...

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Reevaluating the economic benefits of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)-People's Republic of China high-speed rail and its implications for fiscal stability of the Lao...

Lane, Jonathan Andrew - 2020

This paper explores the challenges created by debt and fiscal stability in countries where major infrastructure investment is proposed. This paper specifically focuses on the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the $6 billion Lao PDR-People's Republic of China (PRC) high-speed railway...

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The People's Republic of China connecting Europe?

Gruebler, Julia - 2020

connectivity in Europe to drive economic convergence and not political divergence. The need to establish a level playing field for …

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Infrastructure and urbanization in the People's Republic of China

Li, Zhigang - 2017

The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined relationship between investment, urbanization, and economic growth. In one mechanism, urbanization generates demand for infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth...

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Belts, roads, and regions : the dynamics of Chinese and Japanese infrastructure connectivity initiatives and Europe's responses

Pascha, Werner - 2020

The paper argues that East Asia is setting the pace for the recent trend in regional and inter-regional integration, which is associated with multilateral infrastructure connectivity initiatives, like the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) of the People's Republic of China and Japan's "Partnership...

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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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