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Reducing environmental risks from belt and road initiative investments in transportation infrastructure

Losos, Elizabeth; Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Olander, Lydia; … - 2019

The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure,...

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The World is not Yet Flat : Transport Costs Matter!

Behrens, Kristian - 2016

The paper provides evidence of the effects of changes in transport costs on the geographic concentration of industries. The analysis uses micro-level commodity flow data and micro-geographic plant-level data to construct industry-specific ad valorem trucking rates and continuous measures of...

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Freight Transport for Development Toolkit : Ports and Waterborne Freight

Kruk, C. Bert - 2009

million tons in 2007, of world freight is transported by sea. Most, if not all, freight transport moves from the producer to … provides data on world maritime transport and explains the different types of cargo that pass which are carried by the world … overview of the world port in terms of numbers and classifies the largest ports in the world in terms of total cargoes …

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Road Freight in Central America : Five Explanations to High Costs of Service Provision

World Bank - 2012

economies around the world. In the past 20 years, the industry has advanced as technology has improved communication, management …

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Incorporating resilience in infrastructure prioritization : application to the road transport sector

Marcelo, Darwin; House, Schuyler; Raina, Aditi - 2018

natural disaster. The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment …, the World Bank and Kyoto University have operationalized key resilience concepts at the project level and developed …

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The Week

Eden, Maya - 2016

Is a five-day workweek followed by a two-day weekend a socially optimal schedule? This paper presents a model in which labor productivity and the marginal utility of leisure evolve endogenously over the workweek. Labor productivity is shaped by two forces: restfulness, which decreases over the...

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Gender differences in time use : allocating time between the market and the household

Rubiano-Matulevich, Eliana; Viollaz, Mariana - 2019

Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage and parenthood bring substantial changes in time...

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