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Governance is central to development outcomes in infrastructure, not least because corruption (a symptom of failed … - primarily at the sector level - to improve governance and reduce the development impact of corruption. The discussion covers …
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This paper offers an empirical evaluation of the output contribution of infrastructure. Drawing from a large data set on infrastructure stocks covering 88 countries and spanning the years 1960-2000, and using a panel time-series approach, the paper estimates a long-run aggregate production...
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assessment of the contribution of infrastructure development to growth across Latin America. Third, it examines the trends in the …
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assessment of the contribution of infrastructure development to growth across Latin America. Third, it examines the trends in the …
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between infrastructure and economic growth (at the economy-wide, regional and sectoral level) and the composition, sequencing … foundations (growth theory and new economic geography). Section 3 assesses the analysis of 140 specifications from 64 recent …
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This paper aims to shed some new light on the conditions needed to ensure the effectiveness of Boards of Directors of state owned enterprises with a focus on infrastructure sectors. In the case of developing countries, empirical studies have found evidence of positive links between the...
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This paper examines whether infrastructure investment has contributed to East Asia's economic growth using both a … growth accounting framework and cross-country regressions. For most of the variables used, both the growth accounting … exercise and cross-country regressions fail to find a significant link between infrastructure, productivity and growth. These …
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, water supply, sanitation, and transport - contributed to growth in East Asia during 1985-2004. It also attempts to provide … additional insights on whether the relationship between infrastructure and growth depends on five additional variables: the … infrastructure were indeed associated with higher growth. However, a more nuanced look at the sensitivity of infrastructure impacts …
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To utilize public resources efficiently, it is required to take full advantage of competition in public procurement auctions. Joint bidding practices are one of the possible ways of facilitating auction competition. In theory, there are pros and cons. It may enable firms to pool their financial...
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infrastructure performance, and an increasing number of observers point to deficient infrastructure as a major obstacle for growth … development on growth and inequality, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper uses a comparative cross-regional perspective … growth and inequality equations including a standard set of control variables augmented by infrastructure quantity and …
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