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China's Belt and Road Initiative aims to improve connectivity between China and more than 70 countries through … infrastructure investment and regional cooperation. The initiative has the potential to accelerate significantly the rate of economic … infrastructure improvements on Belt and Road Initiative and non-Belt and Road Initiative countries' trade flows, growth, and poverty …
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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 …
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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...
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This paper provides a framework to assess the impact of infrastructure investment expected under the Belt and Road … investment, and the expected impact of growth in the medium and long term of that investment. BRI debt financing is expected … medium term, defined as the period 2019-2023, debt financing of BRI investment is expected to be fully disbursed while the …
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investment and trade policy reforms …
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This paper studies the impact of transport infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative on shipment times and trade costs. Based on a new data on completed and planned Belt and Road transport projects, Geographic Information System analysis is used to estimate shipment times before...
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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,...
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This paper uses the construction of India's Golden Quadrangle central highway network, together with comprehensive loan data from the Reserve Bank of India, to investigate the interaction between infrastructure development and financial sector depth. The paper identifies a disproportionate...
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due to the investment. This metric is equivalent to the change in the value of all payments to urban land-the fixed factor … dollar terms more so to richer countries. This finding is consistent with the idea that infrastructure investment along …
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