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Many emerging countries in recent decades have relied on a development strategy that focused primarily on promoting the manufacturing sector and the exports of manufactured goods. However, an acceleration of growth of output and employment in manufacturing has eluded India. This is despite the...
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infrastructures (investment and maintenance costs), linking the expenditure with traffic flows. The analysis concerns rail and road … how the planning of the investment expenditure is still based on different criteria than efficiency. So, the foreseen …
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The aim of the paper is to critically describe the behaviour of the main Italian transport infrastructural agents (national roads and rails, highway, airports concessions) in the field of infrastructure financing. All the actors are trying to avoid the effects of regulation and, at the same...
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The paper discusses the present regulatory framework in Italy concerning transport infrastructures financing and provides some policy indications. The Italian situation is characterised by non homogeneity among the transport modes and insufficient, or even perverse, incentives to efficiency....
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, namely productivity, employment, real wages and investment, at the state level and over the period 1974-1998. Our results … state real wages and productivity, total highway length is a key variable in determining the level of investment in fixed …
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projects in Italy: the exploitation of road demand rigidity and the spreading of the investment over the entire network …, favouring larger concessions. We conclude that all these three mechanisms present deep flaws in terms of transparency and of … contradiction with economic feasibility criteria (that have to dominate the public investment rationale). …
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investment and configuration costs as well as interactive global reach) potentially could play a pivotal role in enabling …
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The paper presents the structure and the concepts at the basis of a database on world transport infrastructure regulation, to be launched. The database will be built promoting a “soft” survey on the world regulatory practices, to be filled by scholars and experts on a voluntary basis. The...
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