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regions to 180 countries for the years 2002 through to 2010. Regional transportation and communication infrastructure capacity …, the positioning of point infrastructure in a region, and geography are explicitly accounted for. Our results highlight … that land infrastructure, air transport capacity, and private maritime infrastructure presence, together with the distance …
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sustainable. Systematic upgrading and radical policy changes are needed to build up India's knowledge infrastructure and …
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This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and of the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative...
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faced and their business environment. The business environment includes physical infrastructure, the availability of an …
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The supply of motorways reduces travel time costs by road, affecting thus the demand for road transport. Besides these intramodal effects, there exist intermodal effects too as far as motorways have impact on the demand of the competing modes. In this paper we establish and estimate a model that...
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This paper analyzes Spanish infrastructure policy since the early 1700s: Road building in the eighteenth century … twenty-first. The analysis reveals a long-term pattern, in which infrastructure policy in Spain has been driven not by the … national budget have regularly been used to decide the priorities regarding infrastructure creation and to fund the development …
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Spain’s transport infrastructure policy has become a paradigmatic case of oversupply and of mismatch with demand. The … massive expansion of the country’s transport infrastructure over the last decade has not been a response to demand bottlenecks … areas, which could help improve the performance of Spain’s infrastructure policy. …
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Most studies analysing the infrastructure impact on regional growth show a positive relationship between both variables … reveals both the absence of a direct effect of infrastructure and the fact that the link between infrastructure and growth … depends on the level of the existing stock (threshold level) and the way infrastructure is articulated in its location …
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Reliance on private partners to help provide infrastructure investment and service delivery is increasing in the United … States. Numerous studies have examined the determinants of the degree of private participation in infrastructure projects as … estimates indicate that infrastructure characteristics, particularly those that reflect “stand alone” versus network …
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Spain’s transport infrastructure policy has become a paradigmatic case of oversupply and of mismatch with demand. The … massive expansion of the country’s transport infrastructure over the last decade has not been a response to demand bottlenecks … areas, which could help improve the performance of Spain’s infrastructure policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662751