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Global determinants of stress and risk in public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure

Reside, Renato E. - 2009

This study analyzes the determinants of stress in public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure investment. While project failures seldom occur, there are many stresses that hinder success. One of these is broad political risk: the prerogative of government executives to make sweeping...

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Infrastructure investment, private finance, and institutional investors : Asia from a global perspective

Inderst, Georg - 2016

This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and within Asia, and creates a "bigger picture" for the demand and supply of capital for...

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Managing multinational infrastructure : an analysis of European Union institutional structures and best practice

Van der Geest, Willem; Núñez-Ferrer, Jorge - 2011

"honest broker", to forge convergence of interests. It is often argued that "deep" European Union (EU)-style integration is a …

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Performance in CAREC countries : cross-sectional evidence at the firm level

Azhgaliyeva, Dina; Mishra, Ranjeeta; Yoshino, Naoyuki; … - 2021

This study aims to examine the impact of infrastructure on firm performance in nine CAREC countries: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Empirical analysis is based on the enterprise survey for 2009, 2013, and 2019....

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Approaches to measure the wider economic impacts of high-speed rail and experiences from Europe

Rothengatter, Werner - 2019

The European Union introduced the concept of Trans-European transport networks in 1996 and developed it from a set of projects into a comprehensive network plan in 2013. The high-priority components of this plan (for 2050) are a core network and nine core network corridors (CNCs), which the...

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Belts, roads, and regions : the dynamics of Chinese and Japanese infrastructure connectivity initiatives and Europe's responses

Pascha, Werner - 2020

The paper argues that East Asia is setting the pace for the recent trend in regional and inter-regional integration, which is associated with multilateral infrastructure connectivity initiatives, like the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) of the People's Republic of China and Japan's "Partnership...

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Market access and firm performance : evidence based on GIS analysis of road network and manufacturing-plant-level data from India

Sharma, Somnath; Kant, Shashi; Mishra, Ranjeeta; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether better access to markets through an improved road network plays a role in improving the profitability of firms in India. We construct a district-level market access index using Indian road network shapefiles, district boundaries, and nightlight raster images and...

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A framework to study the role of structural transformation in productivity growth and regional convergence

Fukao, Kyōji; Paul, Saumik - 2018

We show that σ-convergence in regional productivity growth can be approximated by σ-convergence in sectoral … productivity growth and σ-convergence in structural transformation-led productivity growth. Applying this framework to Japanese … prefecture-level data from 1874 to 2008, we find support for substantial convergence effects of structural transformation in the …

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Growth empirics : structural transformation and sectoral interdependencies of Sri Lanka

Jayasooriya, S. P. - 2017

Even though the impacts of the globalization on economic growth and structural changes are inevitable, many developing countries are slowly transformed in the process. This paper examines the impact of structural transformation of Sri Lanka's economy on sectoral interdependencies to provide...

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Bond market spillover networks during the global pandemic : what we learned from ASEAN-4 markets

Uddin, Mohammed Gazi Salah; Yahya, Muhammad; Park, Donghyun - 2023

During decades of market development, the individual financial markets of the member economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have been progressively incorporated into regional and international markets. The aim of this study is to explore and measure the strength and...

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