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capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process … effective tax rate. We show how persistent differences in growth rates across countries could stem from differential public … (such as law enforcement), versus the stock of tangible public infrastructure. Although the flow of public expenditure …
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We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure … the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We … also depart from this literature by mixing principal components (to condense our institutional and infrastructure measures …
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According to the essential facilities doctrine, competition law requires an infrastructural monopoly to provide access. Under the "Bronner criterion", proposed by the EC Court, the doctrine is only applicable when an infrastructural duopoly is non-viable. This paper uses a simple model to...
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reallocating public spending from infrastructure investment to human development sectors in Bangladesh is small. …
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capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process … effective tax rate. We show how persistent differences in growth rates across countries could stem from differential public … (such as law enforcement), versus the stock of tangible public infrastructure. Although the flow of public expenditure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322715
This paper draws on recent field work within South Asia and an extensive review of secondary data to examine the dynamics of cross border trade and investment in South Asia, exploring the potential for, and obstacles to, such trade through the lens of a sector that is salient throughout South...
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skepticism about its role as an effective strategy of growth. The present study, however, argues that there is need to forge …
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trained skilled workers, infrastructure bottlenecks, low levels of investment, labour rules and regulations, and a …
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Food security is defined as economic access to food along with food production and food availability. Agriculture in the SAR (South Asian Region) is caught in a low equilibrium trap with low productivity of staples, supply shortfalls, high prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification...
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There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
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