Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since … the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present … paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure for trade by means of meta-analysis and meta-regression techniques …

regions to 180 countries for the years 2002 through to 2010. Regional transportation and communication infrastructure capacity …, the positioning of point infrastructure in a region, and geography are explicitly accounted for. Our results highlight … that land infrastructure, air transport capacity, and private maritime infrastructure presence, together with the distance …

This study presents novel evidence regarding the role of regional internet infrastructure in reducing regional per … the internet infrastructure of a region, facilitates this flow of information. Using the data from the 26 statistical … regions of Turkey, we find evidence that internet infrastructure has contributed to regional convergence during the period …

Public capital investment plays an important role in long run growth through enhancing productivity and complementing …

infrastructure types. Estimation results strongly suggest that political bias has been present in the allocation decisions of … regional transportation and communication public investments in Turkey. Keywords Public Infrastructure; Regional Policy …

nonfarm activities are found to be mostly driven by "push" factors, poor education and the access to infrastructure are found …