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economic disparities and public investment in transport infrastructure in Mexico. This study shares the aggregate perspective …), the Solow model is extended to explicitly include transport infrastructure in the analysis and allowing estimating its …, with possibly the aim of reducing the unequal distribution of transport infrastructure among states and improving standard …
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(national roads and rails, highway, airports concessions) in the field of infrastructure financing. All the actors are trying to …
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, PPP, price cap, etc.), the paper is structured by modes. For each infrastructure type (national roads, highways, railways … implications. National roads and railways are financed by general budget on the basis of a planning activity usually carried by the …
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We show why a shopping mall prefers to provide parking for free and embed the parking costs in the prices of the goods. This holds if the mall has monopoly power or prices competitively; if there is parking validation or a trade-off between shopping and parking spaces. It is also the second-best...
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Minimum parking requirements are the norm for urban and suburban development in the United States (Davidson and Dolnick (2002)). The justification for parking space requirements is that overflow parking will occupy nearby street or off-street parking. Shoup (1999) and Willson (1995) provides...
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The aim of this article is the provide an overview of the distribution of land use (property) rights in 12 provinces in Vietnam and the productivity effect on plot level and whole farm rice growing . We show that land titles are indeed important. Only exclusively held titles have the expected...
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In this paper we demonstrate how satellite images and other geographic data can be used to predict land use. A cross-section model of land use is estimated with data for a region in central Mexico. Parameters from the model are used to examine the effects of reduced human activity. If variables...
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The recent growth of soybean cultivation in the Brazilian Amazon has been unprecedented, even as the debate continues over its economic and environmental consequences. Based on contemporary datasets as well as our own field studies, this paper examines the social and economic costs and benefits...
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show that the area under non agriculture use is higher in coastal districts. Cereals and rubber production is positively …
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Payments for watershed services (PWS) are schemes that use funds from water users (including governments) as an incentive for landholders to improve their land management practices. They are increasingly seen as a viable policy alternative to watershed management issues, and a means of...
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