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Rural roads and urban agglomeration economies: Benefits for town and country?

Bell, Clive - 2018

Do urban agglomeration economies enhance the social profitability of rural roads? When all goods are traded at … families. In a closed, two-good economy with mobile labour, the effects of agglomeration economies depend on the … presence of empirically plausible elasticities of agglomeration economies when preferences are Cobb-Douglas and urban …

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The social profitability of rural roads in a small open economy: Do urban agglomeration economies matter?

Bell, Clive - 2020

In the presence of agglomeration economies, the effects of a rural roads programme depend not only on the reduction in …, accompanied by some return migration, provided both cross-price effects in production and consumption and agglomeration economies … are sufficiently small. With empirically plausible elasticities of agglomeration economies, urban households may be worse …

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Evaluating rural roads programmes: A general equilibrium analysis

Bell, Clive - 2023

The structure employed is a small open economy, with one city and a rural hinterland, two traded goods, a transport sector, two specific factors, and mobile labour. A socially profitable programme will promote not only internal, but also external trade. Theory and numerical examples indicate...

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Air transport in Africa: A portrait of capacity and competition in various market segments

Bofinger, Heinrich C. - 2017

Sub-Saharan Africa's air transport, though low in overall volume when compared to other regions in the world, has experienced significant growth in the last decade, both in international and domestic traffic. The sector, in part because of its relatively small size, still faces the challenges of...

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The relationship between transport accessibility and employment duration

van der Merwe, Jacomien; Krygsman, Stephan - 2020

The purpose of this research is to investigate whether transport accessibility influences the employment duration of individuals in South Africa. The South African Revenue Service's IRP5 administration datasets, which indicate employment duration and spatial location data (where workers reside...

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Natural disasters and economic inequality: Insights from wildfires across the globe

Paudel, Jayash - 2023

Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across the globe. This article employs satellite data on real-time active fire locations to evaluate the short-term impact of forest fires on economic inequality around the world. Using...

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Inequality trends and dynamics in India: The bird's-eye and the granular perspectives

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2018

India today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth is being accompanied by rising inequality. We report on a research project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the...

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Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction

Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti; Ylinen, … - 2015

The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries. We examine the determinants of optimal redistributive policies in the context of a developing country that can...

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Public and private expenditures on human capital accumulation in India

Ghate, Chetan; Glomm, Gerhard; Stone, John T. - 2015

We study a model of human capital driven growth, where the parent's human capital serves as a productive input in the child's human capital production only when that of the former exceeds a minimum level required to intellectually contribute to the child's learning. Private and public...

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How status inequality between ethnic groups affects public goods provision: Experimental evidence on caste and tolerance for teacher absenteeism in India

Singh, Prerna; Spears, Dean - 2017

This article contributes to the growing scholarship on how ethnic inequality can dampen the provision of public goods and services. On the one hand, it pushes beyond purely economic inequality to include status inequality between population groups. On other hand, it moves away from the provision...

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