The infrastructure constitutes a support element, with particular importance for supporting all economic and socio- cultural activities. The infrastructure covers both structural field, giving unity to the system unit and the spatial field, thus achieving a viable or not territorial...

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, while proper identification of the causal effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is...

Political, economic, social changes that take place nowarday and refflected in the dinamiks of territirial organization of the sociaty. The Republic of Karelia has a profitable economic and geographical position in one of the federal regions, Northwest federal region of Russia . The big amount...

It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of conflicts. However, the available empirical evidence supporting this view largely neglects the heterogeneous nature of aid. Drawing on the conflict database of the Uppsala Conflict Data...

Der Beitrag arbeitet für das Forschungsfeld der Daseinsvorsorge und der Bereitstellung von Infrastruktureinrichtungen an der These, dass es in erster Linie eine bestimmte Perspektive auf Raum - nämlich eine materielle bzw. quantifizierende - ist, die sich innerhalb der aktuellen empirischen...

Does investment in social infrastructure affect the productivity of manufacturing firms in developing countries? To test this question, I empirically investigate the impact of social infrastructure indicators at district level on firm productivity using firm level data from Pakistan. I split my...

Social infrastructure has endured a long period of neglect in most developed and emerging countries, with chronic underinvestment exposed by the coronavirus crisis 2020. The financial crisis 2007/08 led to a slow revival of economic infrastructure policies, and a growing involvement of...

This article uses research in relation to the provision of public services and infrastructures to support the thesis that primarily one particular perspective on space - namely a material or quantifying perspective - is reflected in current empirical research. The article thus proposes the use...

Die Raumordnungspolitik der Bayerischen Staatsregierung begegnet den ungleichen Lebensverhältnissen im Freistaat gegenwärtig schwerpunktmäßig anhand von Förderprojekten für strukturschwache Regionen. Dem liegt der Gedanke zugrunde, dass Kommunen durch die Schaffung wirtschaftlichen...

The aim ofthe article isto characterize the level ofthe region's diversification according to the cultural component of social infrastructure based on grouped statistical indicators. This paper uses Perkal's synthetic ratio method to characterize the level of cultural infrastructure development...