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TENT-T Priority Projects: Where do we Stand?
Martellato, Dino - In: European Research Studies Journal XIV (2011) 3, pp. 51-66
infrastructure capital, the paper focuses the existing obstacles to a full implementation of TEN-T and, in particular, the funding …
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Transportation and Communication Infrastructure in Latin America: Lessons from Asia
Kotschwar, Barbara - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2012
In Latin America, inadequate transportation infrastructure has been identified as an increasingly important impediment to the region's further integration in global trade and a significant factor preventing countries from properly taking advantage of the multitude of regional, plurilateral, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547901
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Long term impact of a major infrastructure project: the port of Gioia Tauro
Genco, Mario; Sirtori, Emanuela; Vignetti, Silvia - Centre for Industrial Studies (CSIL) - 2013
This paper illustrates the story of the Port of Gioia Tauro, a major infrastructure investment co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund in the period 1994-1998, but whose origin dates back to the beginning of the 1970s. It draws from a recent ex-post evaluation carried out for the...
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Smart cities in Europe
Caragliu, A.; Del Bo, C.; Nijkamp, P. - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2009
Urban performance currently depends not only on the city’s endowment of hard infrastructure (‘physical capital’), but also, and increasingly so, on the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure (‘human and social capital’). The latter form of capital...
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Smart cities in Europe
Caragliu, A.; Del Bo, C.; Nijkamp, P. - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 2009
Urban performance currently depends not only on the city’s endowment of hard infrastructure (‘physical capital’), but also, and increasingly so, on the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure (‘human and social capital’). The latter form of capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782228
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Smart city: fact and fiction
De Santis, Roberta; Fasano, Alessandra; Mignolli, Nadia; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Transforming a city into a Smart City is a complex and multidimensional process which changes over time since all the involved stakeholders work to achieve more and better results. “To be smart” affects many aspects of a city including economics, government, people, living, mobility,...
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A regional model of road accessibility in Mexico: Accessibility surfaces and robustness analysis
Duran-Fernandez, Roberto; Santos, Georgina - In: Research in Transportation Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 55-69
This paper introduces an empirical accessibility model for Mexico based on land transport infrastructure. The model assesses an attraction-accessibility measure derived from a gravity framework. The measure is estimated on a regional basis and can be interpreted as the market potential of a...
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A spatio-temporal analysis of agricultural prices: An application to Colombian data
Iregui, Ana Maria; Otero, Jesús - Banco de la Republica de Colombia - 2012
This paper studies whether the geographical separation of markets constitutes a factor that helps explain the dynamics of agricultural prices. To do this, we employ a highly disaggregated dataset for Colombia that consists of weekly observations on wholesale prices for 18 agricultural products...
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Spatial convergence and growth in Indian agriculture: 1967-2010
Chatterjee, Tirtha - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2014
Inter-state diversity has been a perennial feature of Indian agriculture. The study probes if per capita income in … Indian agriculture has converged across states in the last four and a half decades. It finds strong evidence in favour of … states. The study also identifies the drivers of growth agriculture in the last four and a half decades and results indicate …
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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