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Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure … between infrastructure and economic growth. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on … infrastructure investment in telecommunications and the electricity sectors has a robust positive effect on long-term growth (but not …
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The role of product market reforms in achieving the objective of higher employment and growth has recently received …
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In this paper we revisit the Dutch disease paying particular attention to the role of specific factors of production and capital stock dynamics. The main insight is that if the natural resource rich windfall is substantial but not large enough for the country to become a rentier, capital goods...
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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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Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs … region needs to enhance its connectivity through developing transport infrastructure at the national and regional level to … infrastructure will have profound implications on environment and climate change at the national, regional and global levels as well …
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The paper analyzes the contribution of public capital to private output using several meta-analytical techniques. Both fixed and random effects models are estimated by Weighted Least Squares. Sample overlap across studies is explicitly controlled for by employing a ‘full’ Generalized Least...
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This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal competition through infrastructure in a New Economic Geography framework. It … efficiency arises since the efficient distribution of regional infrastructure requires full agglomeration for sufficiently low …
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transaction costs along with trade infrastructure facilities have significant influence on regional trade flows in Northeast Asia …
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positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …
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