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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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The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...
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We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...
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We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion of new technology and its regional spread; and market reforms, with a major … infrastructure capital on regional inequality. We conclude that investing in human capital will be an effective policy to reduce …
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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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