This paper evaluates the economic development of China using the New Economic Geography (NEG) as a framework of … process sustains it. This paper also supports the hypothesis that investment in infrastructure and fixed assets, which has … been concentrated in China due to the nature of the Special Economic Zones in the Coastal regions, and the interdependence …

Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has … resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both hard and soft infrastructure on trade … improvements in transport infrastructure (i.e., the road density network, air transport, railways, ports, and logistics) have …

Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization in Asia has … resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both hard and soft infrastructure on trade …

Core infrastructure, which covers transportation, information and communication (ICT), energy, water and sanitation … systems, plays a significant role in economic growth. The development of core infrastructure - one of the European Union (EU … addressing the identified issues is needed to assess the impact of infrastructure on economic growth and convergence …

that are compatible with them are infrastructure, physical and institutional, investments supported by the EU and …

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic … effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is important, experimental evaluation, such as randomized control trials (RCT …)-based evaluation, is difficult in the context of large-scale infrastructure. Second, while micro studies so far have focused on the …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion of new technology and its regional spread; and market reforms, with a major … capital and infrastructure capital on regional inequality. We conclude that investing in human capital will be an effective …