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Three feet under : urban jobs, connectivity, and infrastructure : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper
Rentschler, Jun; Braese, Johannes; Jones, Nick; Avner, Paolo - 2019
This paper analyses the degree to which infrastructure reliability and urban economic activity in several African cities is impacted by flooding. It combines firm-level micro data, flood maps, and several spatial data layers across cities through a harmonized geospatial network analysis. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052029
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Urban Mass Transport Infrastructure in Medium and Large Cities in Developing Countries
World Bank - 2012
Developed at the request of the Mexican G20 Presidency for consideration by the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at the G20 Leaders' Summit in Mexico, and jointly prepared with the Asian Development Bank, this policy paper positioned green transport in the context of cities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247932
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Married with Children : A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information
Cherchye, L. - 2010
We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not only depend on own leisure and individual private consumption of market goods. They also depend on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137791
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Trade effects of the New Silk Road : a gravity analysis
Baniya, Suprabha; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2019
This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002696
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Reducing environmental risks from belt and road initiative investments in transportation infrastructure
Losos, Elizabeth; Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Olander, Lydia; … - 2019
The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004784
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The Belt and Road Initiative : reshaping economic geography in Central Asia?
Bird, Julia; Lebrand, Mathilde; Venables, Anthony - 2019
This paper develops a computable spatial equilibrium model of Central Asia and uses it to analyze the possible effects of the Belt Road Initiative on the economy of the region. The model captures international and subnational economic units and their connectivity to each other and the rest of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008368
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Trends in Commuting Time of European Workers : A Cross-Country Analysis
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020
commuting time in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the UK, with male workers …This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last … three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843155
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Sustainable Urban Transport for Kyiv : Towards a Sustainable and Competitive City Built Upon the Legacy System and Innovations
World Bank Group - 2016
This report presents the scope and findings of the Economic Sector Work on Sustainable Urban Transport for the City of Kyiv, financed jointly by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and the Korea Green Growth Trust Fund (KGGTF). The analysis consists of a rigorous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644775
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Transport Policies and Development
Berg, Claudia N. - 2015
This survey reviews the current state of the economic literature, assessing the impact of transport policies on growth, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. The findings are summarized and methodologies are critically assessed, especially those dealing with endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245977
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Bright Investments : Measuring the Impact of Transport Infrastructure Using Luminosity Data in Haiti
Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2019
This paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, using satellite night-light luminosity as a proxy measure. Our identification strategy exploits the differential timing of rehabilitation projects across various road segments of the primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894555