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Infrastructure and regional growth in the European Union

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

- has contributed to regional growth in the EU between 1990 and 2004. It analyses infrastructure in relationship to other …. The meagre returns of infrastructure endowment on economic growth raise interesting questions about the opportunity costs …Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European …

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Railroads of the Raj: estimating the impact of transportation infrastructure

Donaldson, Dave - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new … estimated impact of railroads. These results suggest that transportation infrastructure projects can improve welfare …

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Convergence club empirics: some dynamics and explanations of unequal growth across Indian states

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

disparate distribution of infrastructure, and that of education, and to an extent by a number of macroeconomic indicators, that …

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Capitalist divination: popularist-speculators and technologies of imagination on the Hooghly River

Bear, Laura - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

Economic theory and technocratic policy have long understood economic action to be a communicative activity. From Laplace and Adam Smith to current liberalisation fiscal policy in India designed to produce price signals and entrepreneurial behaviour this conceptualisation has been dominant....

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Hundi/hawala: the problem of definition

Martin, Marina B.V. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

In contemporary times, hundi has collected countless labels; the international press has spurned innumerable villainous descriptions, the bulk of which have helped to perpetuate a dense fog of notoriety. The critical problem lies in definition. As there is an incomplete understanding of hundi's...

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Urbanizing refuge: interrogating spaces of displacement

Sanyal, Romola - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Refugee spaces are emerging as quintessential geographies of the modern, yet their intimate and everyday spatialities remain under-explored. Rendered largely through geopolitical discourses, they are seen as biopolitical spaces where the sovereign can reduce the subject to bare life. In...

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The effects of decentralisation on public investment: evidence and four lessons from Bolivia and Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

, investment shifted from economic production and infrastructure to social services and human capital formation. Resources were …

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Decentralization’s effects on educational outcomes in Bolivia and Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul; Sanchez, Fabio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

, investment shifted from infrastructure to primary social services. In both, it was the behavior of smaller, poorer, more rural …

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Public Spending Patterns: the regional allocation of public investment in Greece by political period.

Psycharis, Yannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

The spatial dispersion of public investment constitutes one of the principal elements and also one of the key issues concerning a country’s strategic regional development. Public investment expenditure represents in part the ‘social wage’ citizens receive, while at the same time it...

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Without purpose and strategy?: a spatio-functional analysis of the regional allocation of public investment in Greece

Monastiriotis, Vassilis; Psycharis, Yiannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We utilise a large database on public investment at the prefecture (NUTS-3) level in Greece for the period 1976-2008 to examine the spatial and functional allocation of public investment in the country. We investigate the extent to which expenditures in different types of public investment are...

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