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Fifty years ago, Punjab embarked on its famous Green Revolution, leading the rest of India in that innovation, and … such as infrastructure, switching costs (including risks), balancing frontier innovation and adaptation, and the relative …
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investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to significantly reduce transport costs. However, this result can …. Very high corruption has the potential to prevent positive effects from road infrastructure on transport costs or to even … reverse them. This paper contributes to the literature on infrastructure investment by introducing and applying an …
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We show with the aid of pooled OLS estimations that investments in improved road infrastructure have the potential to … roads on transport costs or to even reverse them. This paper contributes to the literature on infrastructure investment by … sectoral differences concerning the impact of roads on transport costs. We conclude that investment in transport infrastructure …
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disparate distribution of infrastructure, and that of education, and to an extent by a number of macroeconomic indicators; that …
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distribution of infrastructure and to an extent by a number of macroeconomic indicators; that of, capital expenditure and fiscal …
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and landless and between different regions. Inputs to agriculture are critical to the landowning poor whereas linkages …
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areas of India, and that farmers respond more strongly to the forecast where there is more forecast skill and not at all …
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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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. The government is seen to produce a productive factor interpreted as infrastructure. Infrastructure is both nonrival and …
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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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