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infrastructures. One product of this trend is the ‘inverse infrastructure,’ which refers to a modularized, semi-autonomous and user …-driven infrastructure that is a result of the self-organization of local actors. In this study, we discuss the nature of such … infrastructures and the challenges they pose to local infrastructure policy with special reference to the case of water cooperatives …
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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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Agency (FEMA) spending on rehabilitating or rebuilding infrastructure in post-disaster relief efforts. In this exploratory …
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The aim of this paper is to present an Indefeasible Right of Use (IRU) as a possible remedy for telecom infrastructure …
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The removal of infrastructure bottlenecks is widely considered among the most profitable interventions, in socio …
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This paper examines the relationship between corruption and infrastructure at both the country and regional level using … the measure of corruption in the macro data and the measures of transportation and electricity infrastructure. Countries … with more corruption tend to have worse infrastructure in the eyes of their firms. This link is shown to remain when one …
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infrastructure and its relation to the right to decent work, GDP, inflation and the unemployment rate is the pillar on which this …
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In recent years, the largest Polish cities have experienced intensive suburbanization processes. People migrate to suburban communes and hitherto undeveloped areas change their function towards single- or multi-family residential neighbourhoods. Spontaneous and dispersed suburbanization...
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of public infrastructure across Italian regions basing the analysis also on institutional and political ground. The issue … is here addressed linking the analysis of the impact of infrastructure on GDP with the issue of corruption by means of a … difference between a measure of the physical quantities of public infrastructure and the cumulative price government pays for …
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