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South Asia needs large infrastructure investments to achieve its development goals, and public investment can also … public infrastructure was a key driver of productivity growth in South Asia. Going forward, higher public infrastructure … reap the most benefits from higher infrastructure investment, South Asian countries need to manage fiscal risks carefully …
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industry level, we find that PPP determinants vary across industries depending on the nature of public infrastructure, capital …
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Liberia is facing large infrastructure gaps and developmental needs that constrain the country’s growth potential. The … investment in infrastructure and human capital. Fiscal space remains constrained by rigidities in current spending and the …
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There is a strong economic rationale for close cooperation between the public and private sectors. This has resulted in a significant increase in the demand for the provision of public services through instruments combining public and private money such as public-private partnerships (PPPs or...
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This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth and sectoral reallocation between cities in China. To do so, I construct a unique dataset of bilateral transportation costs between Chinese cities, digitized highway network maps, and firm-level census. I first...
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This paper examines trends in infrastructure investment and its financing in low-income developing countries (LIDCs …). Following an acceleration of public investment over the last 15 years, the stock of infrastructure assets increased in LIDCs …, even though large gaps remain compared to emerging markets. Infrastructure in LIDCs is largely provided by the public …
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Driving infrastructure development, notably mobilizing financial resources for infrastructure projects, has been … infrastructure booms, and a case study of four emerging economies about their practice of funding infrastructure development. The … study shows that (i) there is no empirical evidence that rapid infrastructure growth would undermine contemporary …
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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) involve the supply by the private sector of infrastructure and services deriving … from infrastructure assets which have traditionally been supplied by the public sector. PPPs are spreading all over the …
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