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Biomass Resource Mapping in Pakistan : Final Report on Biomass Atlas
World Bank - 2016
the country. In order to support the GoP, the World Bank (WB) has been providing assistance towards continued development … location and potential of biomass resources. This project is being implemented by the World Bank in Pakistan in close …
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Hydropower Atlas of Madagascar
World Bank - 2017
. ESMAP (Energy Sector Management Assistance Program) is a technical assistance program managed by the World Bank and …-GlobalAtlas program by improving data availability and quality, through an interactive atlas. This study is part of a technical assistance … project funded by ESMAP and implemented by the World Bank in Madagascar , which aims to support mapping resources and …
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The Belt and Road Initiative : reshaping economic geography in Central Asia?
Bird, Julia; Lebrand, Mathilde; Venables, Anthony - 2019
and their connectivity to each other and the rest of the world. Aggregate real income gains from the Belt Road Initiative …
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Reshaping economic geography in East Asia
Bocchi, Alessandro Magnoli (contributor);  … - 2009
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Reshaping economic geography
2009
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Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico
Blankespoor, Brian - 2017
This paper estimates the impacts of road improvements on local employment and specialization in Mexico for 1986-2014, through changes in access to domestic markets and travel costs to ports and the U.S. border. Instrumenting for road placement endogeneity and addressing the recursion problem in...
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The Globe and the Circle : Geometry and Economic Geography as Tribute to Thales and Nash
Basu, Kaushik - 2016
The geometry of the line and the circle has been used in economics for a long time to understand location choice and political positioning in democratic polity. This paper draws on some elementary ideas from geometry and game theory to extend some of the analysis to beyond lines and circles, to...
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Does Access to Foreign Markets Shape Internal Migration? : Evidence from Brazil
Hering, Laura - 2015
This paper investigates how internal migration is affected by Brazil's increased integration into the world economy. It … industries, according to their comparative advantage on the world market. However, the observed impact is driven by the strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246144
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Geography of Poverty in Mali
World Bank - 2015
This study discusses the impact of economic geography and (low) population density on development outcomes in Mali and explores how policies to reduce poverty can be made more effective by taking these two factors into account. The crisis in north Mali which started in 2012 and continues to date...
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Migration and urbanization in post-apartheid South Africa
Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2019
Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization across the continent. The paper exploits a natural experiment, the abolition of South African pass laws, to explore how exogenous population shocks affect the spatial...
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