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Auctions with endogenous participation and quality thresholds : evidence from oda infrastructure procurement

Estache, Antonio - 2009

"Infrastructure projects are often technically complicated and highly customized. Therefore, procurement competition … tends to be limited. Competition is the single most important factor toward auction efficiency and anti-corruption. However …, the degree of competition realized is closely related to bidders' entry decision and the auctioneer's decision on how to …

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Local sources of financing for infrastructure in Africa : a cross-country analysis

Irving, Jacqueline - 2009

"With the exception of South Africa, local financial markets in sub-Saharan Africa remain underdeveloped and small, with a particular dearth of financing with maturity terms commensurate with the medium- to long-term horizons of infrastructure projects. But as financial market reforms gather...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394172

Trends in household coverage of modern infrastructure services in Africa

Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh (contributor) - 2009

"Household surveys have long been used to estimate poverty and inequality trends, as well as trends in education and health indicators, but they have not been used to the same extent to assess trends in the access to or coverage of modern infrastructure services. In this paper, we use...

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Weathering the storm : investing in port infrastructure to lower trade costs in East Asia

Abe, Kazutomo - 2009

"The world economic crisis of 2008 presents clear challenges to prospects for economic growth in developing countries. This is particularly true for emerging economies in East Asia that have relied to a great extent over the past decade on export-led growth. What steps to facilitate trade...

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Making sense of Africa's infrastructure endowment : a benchmarking approach

Yepes, Tito - 2009

"The paper's objective is to explain factors underlying Africa's weak infrastructure endowment and to identify suitable infrastructure goals for the region based on benchmarking against international peers. The authors use a dataset covering the stocks of key infrastructure-including information...

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Infrastructure and growth in Africa

Calderón, César - 2009

"The goal of the paper is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the impact of infrastructure development on growth in African countries. Based on econometric estimates for a sample of 136 countries from 1960-2005, the authors evaluate the impact on per capita growth of faster accumulation of...

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Do community-driven development projects enhance social capital? : evidence from the Philippines

Labonne, Julien - 2008

"This paper explores the social capital impacts of a large-scale, community-driven development project in the Philippines in which communities competed for block grants for infrastructure investment. The analysis uses a unique data set of about 2,100 households collected before the project...

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Infrastructure and growth in South Africa : direct and indirect productivity impacts of 19 infrastructure measures

Fedderke, Johannes W. - 2006

"Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous (countervailing signs) results with little robustness. A number of explanations of the contradictory findings have been proposed. These range from the crowd-out of private by...

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The poverty impact of rural roads : evidence from Bangladesh

Bakht, Zaid - 2006

"The rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to use labor and capital more efficiently. But significant knowledge gaps remain as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into household...

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International benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance

Bogetic, Željko - 2006

"The paper provides a first systematic, comprehensive benchmarking of South Africa's infrastructure performance in four major sectors--electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication technology, and transportation--against the relevant group of comparator countries using a new...

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