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The Break-up of China : with an account of its present commerce, currency, waterways, armies, railways, politics, and future prospects
Beresford, Charles William De la Poer Beresford - 1899
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Revisit' the silk road : railway speed-up project export
Xu, Hangtian - 2014
China's main railway line linking east and west was speeded-up in Oct. 21, 2000, which improves freight efficiency … between eastern China and Xinjiang (the hub of China and Central Asia). This paper tests the impact of exogenous domestic …
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Railway situation in China
Anderson, George Everett - 1911
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Railways and the Local Economy : Evidence from Qingzang Railway
Wang, Yang - 2013
This paper empirically examines the causal effect of railway infrastructure on local economic development using the construction of Qingzang railway as a natural experiment. We apply the difference-in-difference method and find that the Qingzang railway significantly stimulated the economy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082399
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Railway efficiency : an overview and a look at opportunities for improvement
Beck, Arne; Bente, Heiner; Schilling, Martin - 2013
Railway efficiency is a topic of interest worldwide for railway managers operating in competitive markets and for fiscally strained governments. Several recent studies indicate that European railways differ in terms of their efficiency. Based on a comparison with some major non-European railway...
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The Implications of the New Silk Road Railways on Local Development
Fang, Ling - 2019
This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics. Our results show that the establishment of a new...
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Formation of High Speed Railway Network and Urban House Price in China : An Accessibility-Based Perspective
LIU, XUELI - 2019
hierarchies, while the gap between HSR cities and non-HSR cities widened in China. The real estate markets of some central cities …
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Central Asia rail development : why China's belt and road initiative lacks regional importance
Bucsky, Péter; Kenderdine, Tristan - In: The Copenhagen journal of Asian studies : CJAS 39 (2021) 1, pp. 1-20
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Tracks from the Past, Transport for the Future : China's Railway Industry 1990-2008 and Its Future Plans and Possibilities
World Bank - 2012
This report describes and explains how, in the period 1990-2008, China's railway sector has contributed and responded … to the incredibly challenging transport demands generated by China's economic development, and highlights the plans and … possibilities that lie ahead. In 1949, China had only 22,000 km of poorly maintained and war-damaged railway line, less than 1 …
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