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This paper studies the impact of transport infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative on shipment times and trade costs. Based on a new data on completed and planned Belt and Road transport projects, Geographic Information System analysis is used to estimate shipment times before...
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This paper presents a structural general equilibrium model to analyze the effects on trade, welfare, and gross domestic product of common transport infrastructure. Specifically, the model builds on the framework by Caliendo and Parro (2015) -- a Ricardian model with sectoral linkages, trade in...
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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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China has used two main spatial policies to shape its geographic patterns of development: restricted labor mobility … regional economic development and urbanization patterns across China. The results suggest large overall economic benefits from …
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China's government economic stimulus package in 2008-09 appears to have worked well. It seems to have been about the … built into subnational fiscal mechanisms in federal countries. Moreover, China's massive fiscal stimulus played an important … particular relevance today for China, as well as other countries, in formulating policy response to another global economic …
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China has experienced more than 25 years of extraordinary economic growth. Underlying this growth has been a … the authors to range between US $100 billion and US $150 billion) has placed pressure on China's financial system …. Traditionally, China has favored bank lending as a source of finance because the banking system has provided a vehicle for central …
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This paper summarizes the estimates of what Russia will get from World Trade Organization accession and why. A key finding is the estimate that Russia will gain about $53 billion per year in the medium term from World Trade Organization accession and $177 billion per year in the long term, due...
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This paper examines the patterns and economic effects of foreign direct investment across the Belt and Road Initiative countries and assesses the potential role of the initiative in shaping the patterns and effects. Exploring cross-country bilateral transportation cost and foreign investment...
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Existing work on China's economic influence in Africa refers to Africa in broad terms, thereby generalizing the results … paper remedies this by focusing on a single, oil-importing country: Kenya. The paper examines China's economic presence in …. Second, although China represents a large potential market for local exporters, the study finds that China has a better …
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This study briefly summarizes the development experiences of special economic zones in China and Africa, the lessons … that Africa can learn from China, and the preliminary results of the Chinese investments in special economic zones in … planning, weak governance and implementation capacity, and inadequate infrastructure, among others. Since 2006, China has …
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