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Evaluations of new infrastructure in developing countries typically focus on direct effects, such as the impact of an … electrifification program on household energy use. But if new infrastructure induces people to move into an area, other local publicly … provided goods may become congested, offsetting the benefit of the infrastructure. We use a simple model to show how to measure …
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and policy environment. We hypothesise that more developed transportation and communication infrastructure and lower … dispersion varies positively with the regional density of highway, railroad and telephone infrastructure, but negatively with …
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public deficit, while in the second they are used in cost-reducing public investment in infrastructure. In the latter case …
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simultaneously accounts for the real network infrastructure, a distance cost (fuel, repair, tolls), and a time opportunity cost …
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This Paper compares the observed distribution of the stock of infrastructures across the Spanish regions with the optimal allocation derived from a planning problem in which the observed degree of ex-post redistribution is taken as given. The results suggest that Spanish public investment policy...
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The paper analyses governments’ trade-off between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so that public subsidies decline. This benefit for...
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We evaluate the role that cities play on individual productivity in China. First, we show that location explains a …. Overall, these results strongly support the productivity gains that can be expected from further migration and urbanisation in …
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general equilibrium model for the valuation of these effects. The model is estimated using data on transport infrastructure …
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Can infrastructure investment win “hearts and minds”? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship …
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. Depending on the advantages, an increase in the productivity of the investment can decrease or increase the amount of investment …
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