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Infrastructure in developing countries: An overview of some economic issues

Dethier, Jean-Jacques; Moore, Alexander - 2012

This paper surveys the main issues and controversies in the economic literature on infrastructure in developing … countries. Section I reviews the evidence on the role of infrastructure in promoting economic growth. It is argued that …, although infrastructure may be more important for growth than other types of capital, the exact size and form of its effect is …

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Access to utilities by the poor: A global perspective

Komives, Kristin; Whittington, Dale; Wu, Xun - 2001

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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries

Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J.; Tausch, Arno - 2007

Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and...

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Patterns and Determinants of International Trade Costs in the Food Industry

Olper, Alessandro; Raimondi, Valentina - 2007

those of infrastructure and institutions. However, trade policy emerges as an important detfirminant of the North …

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Climate change mitigation strategies in fast-growing countries : the benefits of early action

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2009

This paper builds on the assumption that OECD countries are (or will soon be) taking actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. These actions, however, will not be sufficient to control global warming, unless developing countries also get involved in the cooperative effort to reduce GHG...

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Staða efnahagsmála í aðdraganda kjarasamninga

2018

Lífskjör á Íslandi eru góð, með þeim bestu meðal OECD-ríkja, og ójöfnuður lítill í alþjóðlegum samanburði. Fátækt mælist einnig lítil í slíkum samanburði. Hagkerfið hefur náð sér eftir áfallið árið 2008 og helstu hagstærðir hafa aldrei verið jafn hagstæðar...

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Die Qualität der Daseinsvorsorge in Österreichs Städten und deren Auswirkungen auf die Lebensumstände im Europavergleich

Holzner, Mario; Römisch, Roman - 2020

-Vergleich einen sehr hohen Lebensstandard und ein hohes Niveau an Lebensqualität. Ihre Kosten für Wasser, Energie und insbesondere …

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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 …

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Inequality, politics and economic growth

Chakrabarty, Debajyoti - 2002

. The government is seen to produce a productive factor interpreted as infrastructure. Infrastructure is both nonrival and …

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Involvement of small and medium sized enterprises in the private realisation of public buildings

Heinecke, Bastian - 2002

This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...

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