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Trade-offs in Achieving Human Development Goals for Bangladesh
Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2014
reallocating public spending from infrastructure investment to human development sectors in Bangladesh is small. …
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Willingness to pay for private and public improvements of vulnerable road users' safety
Andersson Järnberg, Linda; Andrén, Daniela; … - 2021
A frequent finding in the empirical literature on cost-benefit analysis of traffic safety measures is that valuations of public goods are lower than valuations of private goods, contrary to theory predictions. This study elicits the willingness to pay for publicly and privately provided safety...
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Industrialization, exports and the developmental state in Africa: The case for transformation
wa Githinji, Mwangi; Adesida, Olugbenga - 2011
This essay explores the role of the state in promoting exports and industrialization in the quest for transformation of African economies. It does this by exploring the role of trade in African economies followed by a brief look at the East Asian Developmental state. This is followed by an...
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Institutions, infrastructure, and trade
Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294570
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When Should an Incumbent Be Obliged to Share its Infrastructure with an Entrant Under the General Competition Rules?
Bergman, Mats - 2003
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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Dams and Intergovernmental Transfer: Balancing Local Interests in China
Bao, Xiaojia
Large-scale dams are controversial public infrastructure projects due to the unevenly distributed benefits and losses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010892133
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Highway to Hitler
Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2014
Can infrastructure investment win "hearts and minds"? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship …
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Deficient public infrastructure and private costs: evidence from a time-use survey for the water sector in India
Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2008
This paper presents new evidence on the links between public-infrastructure provisioning and time allocation related to … the water sector in India. An analysis of time-use data reveals that worsening public infrastructure affects market work …, with evident gender differentials. The results also suggest that access to public infrastructure can lead to substitution …
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Public investment in developing countries: A blessing or a curse?
Cavallo, Eduardo; Daude, Christian - 2008
results are consistent with the hypothesis that, while public infrastructure may be complementary to private capital in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278277
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What does Norway get out of its oil fund, if not more strategic infrastructure investment?
Hudson, Michael - 2011
other countries has been that investing in domestic infrastructure serves to lower the cost of living and doing business …
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