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Financing Infrastructure in India : Macroeconomic Lessons and Emerging Market Case Studies

Walsh, James - 2011

Driving infrastructure development, notably mobilizing financial resources for infrastructure projects, has been challenging in many countries. This study includes two parts: an empirical analysis of macroeconomic risks associated with infrastructure booms, and a case study of four emerging...

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Financing infrastructure in India : macroeconomic lessons and emerging market : case studies

Walsh, James P.; Park, Chanho; Yu, Jiangyan - 2011

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Trends and challenges in infrastructure investment in low-income developing countries

Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Kljuev, Vladimir Vladimirovič; … - 2017

countries. Bridging infrastructure gaps would require a broad set of actions to improve the efficiency of public spending …

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Highways to heaven : infrastructure determinants and trends in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cerra, Valerie; Cuevas, Alfredo; Goes, Carlos; … - 2016

Inadequate infrastructure has been widely viewed as a principal barrier to growth and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of infrastructure in the region and highlights key areas in which infrastructure networks can be enhanced. The public...

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Towards a Principal-Agent Based Typology of Risks in Public-Private Partnerships

Palma, André de - 2009

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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Public-Private Partnerships : A Public Economics Perspective

Sadka, Efraim - 2006

public budget deficits. But if they are properly designed and transparently reported, PPPs can enhance the efficiency of the …

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Determinants of Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure

Yehoue, Etienne B. - 2006

-private partnership (PPP) arrangements. We find that PPPs tend to be more common in countries where governments suffer from heavy debt … law are associated with more PPP projects. PPPs are also more prevalent in countries with previous PPP experiences. At the … industry level, we find that PPP determinants vary across industries depending on the nature of public infrastructure, capital …

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Investing in public infrastructure : roads or schools?

Atolia, Manoj; Li, Bin; Marto, Ricardo; Melina, Giovanni - 2017

Why do governments in developing economies invest in roads and not enough in schools? In the presence of distortionary taxation and debt aversion, the different pace at which roads and schools contribute to economic growth turns out to be central to this decision. Specifically, while costs are...

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Transport infrastructure, city productivity growth and sectoral reallocation : evidence from China

Yang, Yang - 2018

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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From global savings glut to financing infrastructure : the advent of investment platforms

Arezki, Rabah; Bolton, Patrick; Peters, Sanjay; Samama, … - 2016

This paper investigates the emerging global landscape for public-private co-investments in infrastructure. The creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and other so-called 'infrastructure investment platforms' are an attempt to tap into the pool of both public and private long-term...

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